Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 61
In front of the house was a great stone trough, so she said to the child: ‘Take the pail, Red-Cap; I made some sausages yesterday, so carry the water in which I boiled them to the trough.’
Who acts: grandmother, I · What happens: be, say, take, make, carry, boil · To what, where: great stone trough, front, pail, sausages, water, Red · 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, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 front | case |
| 2 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trough | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 front | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 trough | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 trough | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 trough | amod |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trough | compound |
| 10 | trough | trough | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 trough | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 child | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 child | det |
| 17 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 Take | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 Take | punct |
| 20 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pail | det |
| 22 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Take | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Red | punct |
| 24 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Take | obj |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Cap | punct |
| 26 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Red | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 made | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 made | nsubj |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Take | parataxis |
| 30 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 sausages | det |
| 31 | sausages | sausage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 made | obj |
| 32 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 made | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 carry | punct |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 carry | advmod |
| 35 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 Take | parataxis |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 water | det |
| 37 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 carry | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 which | case |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 boiled | obl |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 boiled | nsubj |
| 41 | boiled | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 carry | advcl |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 boiled | obj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 trough | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 trough | det |
| 45 | trough | trough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 boiled | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 trough | punct |
| 47 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 trough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a great stone trough | front of the house | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | grandmother | to the child | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to child=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | the pail | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument pail=Theme red=Destination | |||||
| 4 | make | past | I | some sausages | yesterday | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sausage=Product | |||
| 5 | carry | infinitive | the water | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||||
| 6 | boil | past | I | Red | to the trough result | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient in which=Instrument to trough=Result |
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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