Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 4
Set out before it gets hot, and when you are going, walk nicely and quietly and do not run off the path, or you may fall and break the bottle, and then your grandmother will get nothing; and when you go into her room, don’t forget to say, “Good morning”, and don’t peep into every corner before you do it.’
Who acts: cake, you, grandmother · What happens: set out, get, go, walk, not run off, fall · To what, where: path, bottle, nothing, room · 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 (cake, you, grandmother), 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 | Set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 gets | advcl |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Set | compound:prt |
| 3 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 gets | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gets | nsubj |
| 5 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gets | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 going | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 going | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 going | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 going | aux |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 gets | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 walk | punct |
| 14 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 going | xcomp |
| 15 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 14 walk | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 quietly | cc |
| 17 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 15 nicely | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 run | cc |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 run | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 run | advmod |
| 21 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 walk | conj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 run | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 path | det |
| 24 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 run | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fall | punct |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 fall | cc |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 fall | nsubj |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 fall | aux |
| 29 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 gets | parataxis |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 break | cc |
| 31 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 fall | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 bottle | det |
| 33 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 break | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 get | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 get | cc |
| 36 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 get | advmod |
| 37 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 38 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 get | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 get | aux |
| 40 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 fall | conj |
| 41 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 40 get | obj |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 53 forget | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 forget | cc |
| 44 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 46 go | advmod |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 go | nsubj |
| 46 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 forget | advcl |
| 47 | into | into | ADP | _ | 49 room | case |
| 48 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 room | nmod:poss |
| 49 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 go | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 go | punct |
| 51 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 53 forget | aux |
| 52 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 53 forget | advmod |
| 53 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 gets | advcl |
| 54 | to | to | PART | _ | 55 say | mark |
| 55 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 53 forget | xcomp |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 morning | punct |
| 57 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 59 morning | punct |
| 58 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 morning | amod |
| 59 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 say | obj |
| 60 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 59 morning | punct |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 peep | punct |
| 62 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 65 peep | cc |
| 63 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 65 peep | aux |
| 64 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 65 peep | advmod |
| 65 | peep | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 53 forget | conj |
| 66 | into | into | ADP | _ | 68 corner | case |
| 67 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 68 corner | det |
| 68 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 peep | obl |
| 69 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 71 do | mark |
| 70 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 71 do | nsubj |
| 71 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 65 peep | advcl |
| 72 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 71 do | obj |
| 73 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gets | punct |
| 74 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle | cake not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | present | cake | hot property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | go | present · progressive | you | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | walk | infinitive | you not said here | nicely property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not run off | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | the path | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme path=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | fall | may | you | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | break | infinitive | you not said here | the bottle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bottle=Patient | ||||
| 8 | get | future | your grandmother | nothing | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 9 | go | present | you | grandmother's room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 10 | not forget | infinitive · do-support | cake not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 11 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | cake not said here | morning | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 12 | not peep | infinitive · do-support | cake not said here | into every corner | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into corner=Theme | ||||
| 13 | do | present | you | bottle | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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