Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 50

When he had made two snips, he saw the little Red-Cap shining, and then he made two snips more, and the little girl sprang out, crying: ‘Ah, how frightened I have been!

Who acts: wolf, little Red Cap, little girl, I · What happens: make, see, shine, spring out, cry, be · To what, where: two snips, little Red Cap · 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, little Red Cap, little girl, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2591:927): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 made	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 saw	advcl
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 snips	nummod
6	snips	snip	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Cap	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Cap	amod
12	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Cap	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Red	punct
14	Cap	Cap	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
15	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 saw	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 made	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 made	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 made	nsubj
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	conj
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 snips	nummod
22	snips	snip	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 made	obj
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 snips	amod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sprang	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sprang	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 girl	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 girl	amod
28	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sprang	nsubj
29	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	conj
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 sprang	compound:prt
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 crying	punct
32	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 sprang	advcl
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 frightened	punct
34	‘	'	PUNCT	_	38 frightened	punct
35	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	38 frightened	discourse
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 frightened	punct
37	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	38 frightened	advmod
38	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 crying	ccomp
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 frightened	nsubj
40	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 frightened	aux
41	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 frightened	cop
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	38 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · perfect	wolf	two snips			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snip=Product
2	see	past	wolf	the little Red Cap			tree rules
3	shine	gerund	the little Red Cap not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	past	wolf	two snips	then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snip=Product
5	spring out	past	the little girl				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	cry speech: express	gerund	the little girl not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	present · perfect	I			frightened property	tree rules

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/50/