Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 55
It also related that once when Red-Cap was again taking cakes to the old grandmother, another wolf spoke to her, and tried to entice her from the path.
Who acts: wine, Red Cap, wolf · What happens: relate, be, speak, try, entice · To what, where: old grandmother, cap, path · 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 (wine, Red Cap, wolf), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 related | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 related | advmod |
| 3 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 once | mark |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 related | obl |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 taking | advmod |
| 7 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Cap | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Red | punct |
| 9 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 taking | cop |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 taking | advmod |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 related | advcl |
| 13 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 taking | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 grandmother | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 grandmother | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grandmother | amod |
| 17 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 spoke | punct |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 wolf | det |
| 20 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spoke | nsubj |
| 21 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 grandmother | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 spoke | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 tried | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 tried | cc |
| 26 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 related | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 entice | mark |
| 28 | entice | entice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 tried | xcomp |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 entice | obj |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 path | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 path | det |
| 32 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 entice | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | past | wine | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Red Cap | again | to the old grandmother; take property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | another wolf | the old grandmother not said here | cap | tree rules | |||
| 4 | try | past | wine not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | entice not said to happen | to-infinitive | wine not said here | cap | the path | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
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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