Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 29
Then he put on her clothes, dressed himself in her cap laid himself in bed and drew the curtains.
Who acts: wolf · What happens: put, dress, lay, draw · To what, where: clothes, wolf, cap, bed, curtains
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 clothes | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 put | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dressed | punct |
| 8 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 dressed | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 cap | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 cap | nmod:poss |
| 12 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dressed | obl |
| 13 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 laid | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 bed | case |
| 16 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laid | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drew | cc |
| 18 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 curtains | det |
| 20 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 drew | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | wolf | grandmother's clothes | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination | |||
| 2 | dress | past | wolf not said here | wolf | grandmother's cap | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 3 | lay | past | wolf not said here | wolf | bed | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in bed=Destination | |||
| 4 | draw | past | wolf not said here | the curtains | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=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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