The Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding Hood, sentence 10

“I am going to see my grandmamma and carry her a custard and a little pot of butter from my mamma.”

Who acts: poor child · What happens: go, see, carry · To what, where: grandmamma, mamma

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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 (poor child), 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	_	4 going	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	xcomp
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 grandmamma	nmod:poss
8	grandmamma	grandmamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 carry	cc
10	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 see	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 carry	obj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 custard	det
13	custard	custard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carry	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pot	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pot	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pot	amod
17	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 custard	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 butter	case
19	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pot	nmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 mamma	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mamma	nmod:poss
22	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carry	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · progressive	the poor child = child				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see in a quote	to-infinitive	the poor child = child not said here	my grandmamma			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grandmamma=Stimulus
3	carry in a quote	infinitive	the poor child = child not said here		grandmamma	my mamma	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme she=Beneficiary custard=Value

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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