Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 37

‘The better to see you with, my dear.’

What happens: see · To what, where: you

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: 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 better	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 better	det
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 better	csubj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	5 see	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dear	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dear	nmod:poss
10	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 better	parataxis
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 better	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive		you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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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