The Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding Hood, sentence 15

The Wolf began to run as fast as he could, taking the nearest way, and the little girl went by that farthest about, diverting herself in gathering nuts, running after butterflies, and making nosegays of such little flowers as she met with.

Who acts: Wolf, little girl · What happens: begin, run, take, go, divert, gather · To what, where: nearest way, Wolf, gathering nuts, nosegays

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 (Wolf, little girl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Wolf	det
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 run	mark
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 fast	advmod
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 run	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 could	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 could	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fast	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 taking	punct
12	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 run	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
14	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 way	amod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 taking	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 girl	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 girl	amod
20	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 that	case
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 went	obl
24	farthest	far	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 that	acl
25	about	about	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 diverting	punct
27	diverting	divert	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 went	advcl
28	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 diverting	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 nuts	case
30	gathering	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 nuts	amod
31	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 diverting	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 running	punct
33	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 diverting	conj
34	after	after	ADP	_	35 butterflies	case
35	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 running	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 making	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 making	cc
38	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 diverting	conj
39	nosegays	nosegay	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 making	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 flowers	case
41	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 flowers	amod
42	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 flowers	amod
43	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 nosegays	nmod
44	as	as	SCONJ	_	46 met	mark
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 met	nsubj
46	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 making	advcl
47	with	with	ADP	_	46 met	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Wolf					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	run	to-infinitive	the Wolf not said here				fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	gerund	the Wolf not said here	the nearest way				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
4	go	past	the little girl				by that; about property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by that=Location
5	divert	gerund	the little girl not said here	Wolf	gathering nuts			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer
6	gather	gerund						vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	run	gerund	the little girl not said here			after butterflies		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	make	gerund	the little girl not said here	nosegays of such little flowers				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nosegay=Product
9	meet	past	Wolf					vn meet-36.3-1 «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 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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