Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 58

Soon afterwards the wolf knocked, and cried: ‘Open the door, grandmother, I am Little Red-Cap, and am bringing you some cakes.’

Who acts: wolf, I · What happens: knock, cry, open, be, bring · To what, where: door, Little Red Cap, cakes, you

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 (wolf, I), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 afterwards	advmod
2	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	5 knocked	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knocked	nsubj
5	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cried	cc
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knocked	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 Open	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 Open	punct
11	Open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Open	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grandmother	punct
15	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Open	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Cap	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 Cap	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 Cap	cop
19	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Cap	amod
20	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Cap	flat
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 Cap	punct
22	Cap	Cap	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 knocked	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bringing	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bringing	cc
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 bringing	aux
26	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 knocked	advcl
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 bringing	obj
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 cakes	det
29	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bringing	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 knocked	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	knock	past	the wolf			afterwards property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	the wolf not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	open	infinitive	the wolf not said here	the door		grandmother obl	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
4	is a	present	I	Little Red Cap			tree rules
5	bring	present · progressive	the wolf not said here	some cakes	you		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination cake=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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