The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 19

"Your grand-child, Little Red Riding-Hood," replied the Wolf, counterfeiting her voice, "who has brought you a girdle-cake, and a little pot of butter, sent you by mamma."

Who acts: grand child, little pot · What happens: reply, counterfeit, bring, send · To what, where: Wolf, voice, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grand child, little pot), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 replied	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 child	nmod:poss
3	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 child	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 grand	punct
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 replied	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Red	punct
7	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Red	amod
8	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 child	appos
9	Riding	Riding	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Red	flat
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Hood	punct
11	Hood	Hood	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Red	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 child	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 replied	punct
14	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Wolf	det
16	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 replied	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 counterfeiting	punct
18	counterfeiting	counterfeit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 replied	advcl
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 voice	nmod:poss
20	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 counterfeiting	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 brought	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 brought	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 brought	nsubj:pass
24	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 brought	aux
25	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 counterfeiting	advcl
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 brought	obj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 cake	det
28	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cake	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 girdle	punct
30	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 brought	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sent	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 sent	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 pot	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 pot	amod
35	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sent	nsubj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 butter	case
37	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pot	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 pot	punct
39	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 replied	conj
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 sent	iobj
41	by	by	ADP	_	42 mamma	case
42	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sent	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 replied	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Your grand child	the Wolf			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic
2	counterfeit	gerund	Your grand child not said here	Wolf's voice			tree rules
3	bring in a quote	present · perfect · passive		you			tree rules
4	send in a quote	past	a little pot of butter		you	by mamma	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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: «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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