Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 7
Red-Cap did not know what a wicked creature he was, and was not at all afraid of him.
Who acts: Red Cap · What happens: not know, not be · To what, where: all
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 Cap), 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 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Cap | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Red | punct |
| 3 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 know | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 know | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 creature | det |
| 9 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 creature | amod |
| 10 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 what | nsubj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 was | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 creature | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 afraid | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 afraid | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 afraid | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 afraid | advmod |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 all | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 afraid | obl |
| 19 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 know | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 afraid | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | Red Cap | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not is | past | Red Cap not said here | all | of creature; afraid property | tree rules |
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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