The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 31
Little Red Riding-Hood undressed herself, and went into bed; where, being greatly amazed to see how her grand-mother looked in her night-cloaths, she said to her:
Who acts: Hood, grand mother · What happens: undress, go, be, see, look, say · To what, where: Little Red Riding, bed, mother · 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 (Hood, 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 | 3 Riding | amod |
| 2 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Riding | flat |
| 3 | Riding | Riding | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 undressed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Riding | punct |
| 5 | Hood | Hood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 undressed | nsubj |
| 6 | undressed | undress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 undressed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 undressed | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 bed | case |
| 12 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 where | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 amazed | punct |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 amazed | cop |
| 17 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 18 amazed | advmod |
| 18 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 went | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 amazed | xcomp |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 looked | advmod |
| 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 | 26 looked | nsubj |
| 26 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 cloaths | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 cloaths | nmod:poss |
| 29 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cloaths | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 night | punct |
| 31 | cloaths | cloath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 looked | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 said | punct |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 said | nsubj |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 undressed | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 her | case |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 said | obl |
| 37 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 undressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undress | past | Hood | Little Red Riding | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Hood not said here | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | Hood not said here | amazed, greatly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | Hood not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | look | past | Hood's grand mother | in Hood's night cloaths | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cloath=Theme | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Hood | mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
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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