Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 6
The grandmother lived out in the wood, half a league from the village, and just as Little Red-Cap entered the wood, a wolf met her.
Who acts: grandmother, Little Red, wolf · What happens: live out, enter, meet · To what, where: wood, grandmother
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, Little Red, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 grandmother | det |
| 2 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 lived | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 wood | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wood | det |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 league | punct |
| 9 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 11 league | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 league | det |
| 11 | league | league | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wood | conj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 village | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 village | det |
| 14 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 league | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 entered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 entered | cc |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 entered | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 entered | mark |
| 19 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Red | amod |
| 20 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 entered | nsubj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Cap | punct |
| 22 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Red | conj |
| 23 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lived | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wood | det |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 entered | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 met | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 wolf | det |
| 28 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 met | nsubj |
| 29 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 entered | conj |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 met | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live out | past | the grandmother | the wood and half league from the village | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | Little Red and Cap | the wood | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Destination | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | a wolf | grandmother | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
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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