Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 51

How dark it was inside the wolf’; and after that the aged grandmother came out alive also, but scarcely able to breathe.

Who acts: stomach, aged grandmother · What happens: be, come out, breathe · To what, where: wolf

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 (stomach, aged 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 dark	advmod
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wolf	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wolf	cop
5	inside	inside	ADP	_	7 wolf	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wolf	det
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dark	parataxis
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 wolf	punct
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 alive	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 alive	cc
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 came	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 came	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 grandmother	det
14	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grandmother	amod
15	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 alive	advcl
17	out	out	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dark	conj
19	also	also	ADV	_	18 alive	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 able	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 able	cc
22	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	23 able	advmod
23	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dark	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 breathe	mark
25	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 able	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	stomach	the wolf		tree rules
2	come out	past	the aged grandmother		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	breathe	to-infinitive				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «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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