Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 56

Red-Cap, however, was on her guard, and went straight forward on her way, and told her grandmother that she had met the wolf, and that he had said ‘good morning’ to her, but with such a wicked look in his eyes, that if they had not been on the public road she was certain he would have eaten her up.

Who acts: Red Cap, cap, wolf, eyes, public road · What happens: be, go, tell, meet, say, not be · To what, where: guard, way, grandmother, wolf, cap, public road · 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 (Red Cap, cap, wolf, eyes), 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	10 guard	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Cap	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	10 guard	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 guard	cop
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 guard	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 guard	nmod:poss
10	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 guard	appos
14	straight	straight	ADV	_	15 forward	advmod
15	forward	forward	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 way	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 way	nmod:poss
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 told	cc
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 grandmother	nmod:poss
23	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 told	iobj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 met	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 met	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 met	aux
27	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 told	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wolf	det
29	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 met	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 said	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 said	cc
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 said	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 said	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 said	aux
35	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 met	conj
36	‘	'	PUNCT	_	38 morning	punct
37	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 morning	amod
38	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 said	obl
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	38 morning	punct
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 her	case
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 said	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 look	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 look	cc
44	with	with	ADP	_	48 look	case
45	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	48 look	det:predet
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 look	det
47	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 look	amod
48	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	parataxis
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 eyes	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 eyes	nmod:poss
51	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 look	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 certain	punct
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	65 certain	mark
54	if	if	SCONJ	_	62 road	mark
55	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 road	nsubj
56	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 road	aux
57	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	62 road	advmod
58	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	62 road	cop
59	on	on	ADP	_	62 road	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 road	det
61	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 road	amod
62	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 certain	nsubj
63	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 certain	nsubj
64	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 certain	cop
65	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 look	conj
66	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 eaten	nsubj
67	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	69 eaten	aux
68	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	69 eaten	aux
69	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	65 certain	advcl
70	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 eaten	obj
71	up	up	ADP	_	69 eaten	compound:prt
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 guard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Red Cap			cap's guard		however property	tree rules
2	go	past				cap's way		forward property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
3	tell speech: assert	past			cap's grandmother				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent grandmother=Recipient clause=Topic
4	meet	past · perfect	cap	the wolf					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Co-Agent
5	say speech: assert	past · perfect	wolf		cap		morning		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
6	not is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	eyes = eye			the public road			tree rules
7	is	past	the public road					certain property	tree rules
8	eat up	would · perfect	wolf	cap					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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