Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 5
‘I will take great care,’ said Little Red-Cap to her mother, and gave her hand on it.
Who acts: I, Little · What happens: take, say, give · To what, where: great care, hand · 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 (I, Little), 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 | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 care | amod |
| 6 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Little | flat |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Cap | punct |
| 13 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Little | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 mother | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gave | cc |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hand | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | I | great care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Little Cap | to cap's mother | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to mother=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Little Cap not said here | mother's hand | hand | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on it=Asset |
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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