Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 57

‘Well,’ said the grandmother, ‘we will shut the door, that he may not come in.’

Who acts: grandmother, we, door · What happens: say, shut, not come in · To what, where: door · 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 (grandmother, we, door), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grandmother	det
7	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shut	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 shut	punct
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 shut	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 shut	aux
12	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shut	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 come	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 come	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 come	advmod
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 shut	conj
21	in	in	ADV	_	20 come	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the grandmother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	shut	future	we	the door	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient
3	not come in	may	door		vn escape-51.1-1 «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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