Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 32
She called out: ‘Good morning,’ but received no answer; so she went to the bed and drew back the curtains.
Who acts: cap · What happens: call out, receive, go, draw back · To what, where: answer, 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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 called | compound:prt |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 morning | punct |
| 6 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 morning | amod |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 morning | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 morning | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 received | cc |
| 11 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 answer | det |
| 13 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 received | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 bed | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bed | det |
| 20 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 drew | cc |
| 22 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 went | conj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 drew | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 curtains | det |
| 25 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 drew | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | past | cap | morning | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | receive | past | cap not said here | no answer | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | cap | the bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | draw back | past | cap 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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