Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 33

There lay her grandmother with her cap pulled far over her face, and looking very strange.

Who acts: cap · What happens: lie, pull, look · To what, where: grandmother, face

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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 lay	expl
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 grandmother	nmod:poss
4	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obj
5	with	with	SCONJ	_	8 pulled	mark
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cap	nmod:poss
7	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pulled	nsubj
8	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	advcl
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 pulled	advmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 face	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 face	nmod:poss
12	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pulled	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 looking	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 looking	cc
15	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 lay	advcl
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 strange	advmod
17	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 looking	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past		cap's grandmother	there		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grandmother=Theme
2	pull	past	cap's cap		cap's face	far property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	gerund				strange property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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