Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 42

And scarcely had the wolf said this, than with one bound he was out of bed and swallowed up Red-Cap.

Who acts: wolf · What happens: have, say, be, swallow up · To what, where: this, bed, Red · 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 (wolf), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 had	cc
2	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	ccomp
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bed	punct
9	than	than	ADP	_	12 bound	case
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 bound	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 bound	nummod
12	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bed	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bed	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bed	cop
15	out	out	ADP	_	17 bed	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 bed	case
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 swallowed	cc
19	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 swallowed	compound:prt
21	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 swallowed	obj
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 Cap	punct
23	Cap	Cap	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Red	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past				scarcely property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the wolf	this			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic
3	is	past	wolf		bed	than one bound	tree rules
4	swallow up	participle		Red and Cap			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent red=Patient

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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