Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 39
‘The better to hug you with.’
What happens: hug · 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 hug | mark |
| 5 | hug | hug | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 better | csubj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 hug | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 hug | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hug | to-infinitive | you | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent |
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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