Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 27

‘Lift the latch,’ called out the grandmother, ‘I am too weak, and cannot get up.’

Who acts: you, ’, I · What happens: lift, call out, be, not get up · To what, where: latch, grandmother

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 (you, ’, I), 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	_	2 Lift	punct
2	Lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 latch	det
4	latch	latch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Lift	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ’	punct
6	’	'	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 latch	appos
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ’	acl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 called	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grandmother	det
10	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 weak	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 weak	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 weak	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 weak	cop
15	too	too	ADV	_	16 weak	advmod
16	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Lift	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 get	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 get	cc
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 get	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 get	advmod
21	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 weak	advcl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 get	compound:prt
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Lift	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Lift	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lift	imperative	you not said here	the latch		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent latch=Theme
2	call out speech: assert	participle	’ not said here	the grandmother		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	I		weak property	tree rules
4	not get up	can	I not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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