Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 30
Little Red-Cap, however, had been running about picking flowers, and when she had gathered so many that she could carry no more, she remembered her grandmother, and set out on the way to her.
Who acts: cap, Little Red Cap · What happens: run, pick, gather, carry, remember, set out · To what, where: flowers, many, more, grandmother, cap, way
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, Little Red 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Cap | amod |
| 2 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Cap | flat |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Cap | punct |
| 4 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 remembered | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Cap | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 running | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 running | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 running | aux |
| 10 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Cap | appos |
| 11 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 12 picking | mark |
| 12 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 running | advcl |
| 13 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 picking | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gathered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gathered | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 gathered | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gathered | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 gathered | aux |
| 19 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 Cap | acl:relcl |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 many | advmod |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gathered | obj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 carry | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 carry | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 carry | aux |
| 25 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 many | advcl |
| 26 | no | no | ADV | _ | 27 more | advmod |
| 27 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 carry | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Cap | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 remembered | nsubj |
| 30 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 32 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 remembered | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 set | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 set | cc |
| 35 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 remembered | conj |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 set | compound:prt |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 way | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 way | det |
| 39 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 set | obl |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 her | case |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 set | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · perfect · progressive | however property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pick | gerund | flowers | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | |||||
| 3 | gather | past · perfect | cap | many | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry | could | cap | more | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme | ||||
| 5 | remember | past | Little Red Cap | cap's grandmother | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme | ||||
| 6 | set out | past | Little Red Cap not said here | cap | the way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location |
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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