Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 28

The wolf lifted the latch, the door sprang open, and without saying a word he went straight to the grandmother’s bed, and devoured her.

Who acts: wolf, door · What happens: lift, spring, say, go, devour · To what, where: latch, word, grandmother · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wolf, door), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lifted	nsubj
3	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 latch	det
5	latch	latch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lifted	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sprang	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sprang	nsubj
9	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lifted	conj
10	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sprang	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saying	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saying	cc
13	without	without	SCONJ	_	14 saying	mark
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lifted	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 word	det
16	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saying	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 word	acl:relcl
19	straight	straight	ADV	_	24 bed	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	24 bed	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 grandmother	det
22	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bed	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 grandmother	case
24	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 devoured	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 devoured	cc
27	devoured	devour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lifted	conj
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 devoured	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lift	past	the wolf	the latch		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent latch=Theme
2	spring	past	the door		open property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the wolf not said here	a word		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
4	go	past	door	a word not said here	to the grandmother's bed	tree rules
5	devour	past	the wolf not said here	grandmother		vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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