Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 52
Red-Cap, however, quickly fetched great stones with which they filled the wolf’s belly, and when he awoke, he wanted to run away, but the stones were so heavy that he collapsed at once, and fell dead.
Who acts: Red Cap, wolf, stones · What happens: fetch, fill, awake, want, run away, be · To what, where: great stones, belly
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 (Red Cap, wolf, stones), 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 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Cap | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Cap | punct |
| 3 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 fetched | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Cap | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 fetched | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 8 fetched | advmod |
| 8 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stones | amod |
| 10 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fetched | obj |
| 11 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 14 filled | mark |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 filled | nsubj |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 filled | nsubj |
| 14 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fetched | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wolf | det |
| 16 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 belly | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 wolf | case |
| 18 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 wanted | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 wanted | cc |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 awoke | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 awoke | nsubj |
| 23 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 wanted | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 awoke | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 wanted | nsubj |
| 26 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fetched | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 run | mark |
| 28 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 wanted | xcomp |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 run | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 heavy | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 heavy | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 stones | det |
| 33 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 heavy | nsubj |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 heavy | cop |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 heavy | advmod |
| 36 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wanted | parataxis |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 collapsed | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 collapsed | nsubj |
| 39 | collapsed | collapse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 heavy | advcl |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 once | case |
| 41 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 39 collapsed | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 fell | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 fell | cc |
| 44 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fetched | conj |
| 45 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 fell | xcomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fetched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | past | Red Cap | great stones | however, quickly property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | |||
| 2 | fill | past | the wolf's belly | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent belly=Patient | |||||
| 3 | awake | past | wolf | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | want | past | wolf | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | run away not said to happen | to-infinitive | wolf not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the stones | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | collapse | past | wolf | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 8 | fall | past | Red Cap not said here | dead property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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