The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 25

Little Red Riding-Hood, hearing the big voice of the Wolf, was at first afraid; but believing her grand-mother had got a cold, and was hoarse, answered:

Who acts: Little Red, grand mother · What happens: hear, be, believe, get, answer · To what, where: big voice, cold

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 (Little Red, grand mother), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Red	amod
2	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 afraid	nsubj
3	Riding	Riding	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Red	flat
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Hood	punct
5	Hood	Hood	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Red	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hearing	punct
7	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Red	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 voice	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 voice	amod
10	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hearing	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Wolf	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Wolf	det
13	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 voice	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Red	punct
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 afraid	cop
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 afraid	case
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 afraid	advmod
18	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 got	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 got	cc
21	believing	believe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 got	csubj:pass
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mother	nmod:poss
23	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 mother	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 grand	punct
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 got	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 got	aux
27	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 afraid	ccomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 cold	det
29	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 got	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hoarse	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 hoarse	cc
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 hoarse	cop
33	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 afraid	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 answered	punct
35	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 afraid	parataxis
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	Little Red and Hood not said here	the big voice of the Wolf		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
2	is	past	Little Red and Hood		afraid, first property	tree rules
3	believe	gerund				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	get	past · perfect	Hood's grand mother	a cold		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cold=Stimulus
5	is	past	Little Red and Hood not said here		hoarse property	tree rules
6	answer speech: assert	past				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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