Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 44

The huntsman was just passing the house, and thought to himself: ‘How the old woman is snoring!

Who acts: huntsman, old woman · What happens: pass, think, snore · To what, where: house, huntsman

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 (huntsman, old woman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 huntsman	det
2	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passing	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 passing	advmod
5	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thought	cc
10	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 passing	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 himself	case
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 thought	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 snoring	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 snoring	punct
15	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 snoring	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woman	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 snoring	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 snoring	aux
20	snoring	snore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 passing	conj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 passing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	pass	past · progressive	the huntsman	the house		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory
2	think speech: other	participle	the huntsman not said here		huntsman	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	snore	present · progressive	the old woman			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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