Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 21
It is so early in the day that I shall still get there in good time’; and so she ran from the path into the wood to look for flowers.
Who acts: nosegay, I, cap · What happens: be, get, run, look · To what, where: that, day, path
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nosegay, I, cap), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 day | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 day | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 early | advmod |
| 4 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 day | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 get | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | aux |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 get | advmod |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 day | parataxis |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 get | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obl |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 ran | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ran | cc |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 ran | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ran | nsubj |
| 22 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 day | acl:relcl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 path | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 path | det |
| 25 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ran | obl |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 wood | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wood | det |
| 28 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ran | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 look | mark |
| 30 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ran | advcl |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 flowers | case |
| 32 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 look | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | nosegay | in the day | early property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | shall | I | that | there | still; time | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | run | past | cap | the day not said here | the path | into the wood | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent day=Theme from path=Initial_Location into wood=Destination | ||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | cap not said here | for flowers | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for flower=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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