The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 42

And, saying these words, this wicked Wolf fell upon poor Little Red Riding-Hood, and ate her all up.

Who acts: wicked Wolf · What happens: say, fall, eat · To what, where: words, poor Little Red Riding Hood, Wolf · 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 (wicked Wolf), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 saying	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 words	det
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saying	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fell	punct
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 Wolf	det
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Wolf	amod
9	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	nsubj
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	conj
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 Hood	case
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Hood	amod
13	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Hood	amod
14	Red	Red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Hood	amod
15	Riding	Riding	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Hood	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Hood	punct
17	Hood	Hood	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 fell	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ate	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ate	cc
20	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fell	conj
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ate	obj
22	all	all	ADV	_	23 up	advmod
23	up	up	ADV	_	20 ate	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		this words		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	fall	past	this wicked Wolf		poor Little Red Riding Hood	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon hood=Location
3	eat	past	this wicked Wolf not said here	Wolf		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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