Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 31
She was surprised to find the cottage-door standing open, and when she went into the room, she had such a strange feeling that she said to herself: ‘Oh dear! how uneasy I feel today, and at other times I like being with grandmother so much.’
Who acts: cap, cottage door, I · What happens: be, find, stand, go, have, say · To what, where: cottage door, room, strange feeling, cap · 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 (cap, cottage door, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 surprised | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 surprised | cop |
| 3 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 surprised | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 7 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 door | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 cottage | punct |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 10 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 door | acl |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 standing | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 had | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 went | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 had | advcl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 room | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 room | det |
| 19 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 surprised | parataxis |
| 23 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 feeling | det:predet |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 feeling | det |
| 25 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 feeling | amod |
| 26 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 said | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 said | nsubj |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 had | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 herself | case |
| 31 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 said | obl |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 dear | punct |
| 33 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 dear | punct |
| 34 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 35 dear | discourse |
| 35 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 said | parataxis |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 35 dear | punct |
| 37 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 uneasy | advmod |
| 38 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 feel | xcomp |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 feel | nsubj |
| 40 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 dear | parataxis |
| 41 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 feel | obl:unmarked |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 like | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 like | cc |
| 44 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 times | case |
| 45 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 times | amod |
| 46 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 like | obl |
| 47 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 like | nsubj |
| 48 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 grandmother | csubj |
| 49 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 51 grandmother | cop |
| 50 | with | with | ADP | _ | 51 grandmother | case |
| 51 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 feel | parataxis |
| 52 | so | so | ADV | _ | 53 much | advmod |
| 53 | much | much | ADV | _ | 40 feel | advmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 surprised | punct |
| 55 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | cap | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | cap not said here | the cottage door | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | the cottage door not said here | open property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go | past | cap | the room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | have | past | cap | such strange feeling | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | cap | cap | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | feel | present | I | today | uneasy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 8 | like | present | I | time | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 9 | is | gerund | with grandmother | 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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