Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 25
‘Little Red-Cap,’ replied the wolf.
Who acts: Little Red · What happens: reply · To what, where: wolf
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 (Little Red), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Red | amod |
| 3 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Cap | punct |
| 5 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Red | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wolf | det |
| 10 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Little Red and Cap | the wolf | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic |
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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