Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 26
‘She is bringing cake and wine; open the door.’
Who acts: cap · What happens: bring, open · To what, where: cake, door
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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 bringing | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bringing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bringing | aux |
| 4 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bringing | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wine | cc |
| 7 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cake | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 open | punct |
| 9 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 bringing | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 open | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bringing | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 bringing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present · progressive | cap | cake and wine | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cake=Theme | ||||
| 2 | open | infinitive | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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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