Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 59

But they did not speak, or open the door, so the grey-beard stole twice or thrice round the house, and at last jumped on the roof, intending to wait until Red-Cap went home in the evening, and then to steal after her and devour her in the darkness.

Who acts: Red · What happens: not speak, open, jump, intend, wait, go · To what, where: door, last, grandmother, darkness · 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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 speak	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 speak	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 speak	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 speak	advmod
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 open	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 open	cc
8	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 speak	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 open	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stole	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	17 stole	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stole	det
14	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stole	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 grey	punct
16	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stole	compound
17	stole	stole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 open	obl
18	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 stole	advmod
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 thrice	cc
20	thrice	thrice	ADV	_	18 twice	conj
21	round	round	ADP	_	23 house	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 house	det
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stole	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 jumped	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 jumped	cc
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 last	case
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 jumped	obl
28	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 open	conj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 roof	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 roof	det
31	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 jumped	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 intending	punct
33	intending	intend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 jumped	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 wait	mark
35	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 intending	xcomp
36	until	until	SCONJ	_	40 went	mark
37	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 went	nsubj
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 Red	punct
39	Cap	Cap	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Red	flat
40	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 wait	advcl
41	home	home	ADV	_	40 went	advmod
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 evening	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 evening	det
44	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 went	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 steal	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 steal	cc
47	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 steal	advmod
48	to	to	PART	_	49 steal	mark
49	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 speak	conj
50	after	after	ADP	_	51 her	case
51	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 steal	obl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 devour	cc
53	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 steal	conj
54	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 devour	obj
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 darkness	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 darkness	det
57	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 devour	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	past · do-support	Red					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	open	infinitive	Red not said here	the door			the grey beard stole round the house obl	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
3	jump	past	Red not said here		last		on the roof	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Trajectory
4	intend	gerund	Red not said here					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	wait not said to happen	to-infinitive	Red not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	go	past	Red			evening	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	steal	to-infinitive	Red not said here			after grandmother; then		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	devour	infinitive	Red not said here	grandmother	the darkness			vn devour-39.4 «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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