Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 3
One day her mother said to her: ‘Come, Little Red-Cap, here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine; take them to your grandmother, she is ill and weak, and they will do her good.
Who acts: mother, girl, piece · What happens: say, come, be, take, do · To what, where: girl, Little, piece, 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 (mother, girl, piece), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
| 10 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 piece | csubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Little | punct |
| 12 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Come | obl |
| 13 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Little | flat |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Cap | punct |
| 15 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Little | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 here | punct |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 Come | parataxis |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 piece | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 piece | det |
| 20 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 cake | case |
| 22 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 piece | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bottle | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bottle | det |
| 25 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 piece | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 wine | case |
| 27 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bottle | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 take | punct |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 take | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 grandmother | case |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 33 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 take | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 ill | punct |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 ill | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 ill | cop |
| 37 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 take | advcl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 weak | cc |
| 39 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 ill | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 do | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 do | cc |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 do | nsubj |
| 43 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 do | aux |
| 44 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 take | conj |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 do | obj |
| 46 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 do | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | girl's mother | girl | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | come | infinitive | Little and Cap | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | a piece and a bottle of wine | of cake | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | piece | your grandmother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to grandmother=Destination | ||||
| 5 | is | present | girl | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | girl not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | do | future | piece | girl | tree rules |
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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