The Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding Hood, sentence 19

“Your grandchild, Little Red Riding-Hood,” replied the Wolf, counterfeiting her voice; “who has brought you a custard and a little pot of butter sent you by mamma.”

Who acts: grandchild, mamma · What happens: reply, counterfeit, bring, send · To what, where: Wolf, voice, you, little pot · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (grandchild, mamma), 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	_	3 grandchild	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 grandchild	nmod:poss
3	grandchild	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 replied	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Red	punct
5	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Red	amod
6	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grandchild	appos
7	Riding	Riding	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Red	flat
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Hood	punct
9	Hood	Hood	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Red	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grandchild	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 grandchild	punct
12	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Wolf	det
14	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 replied	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 counterfeiting	punct
16	counterfeiting	counterfeit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 replied	advcl
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 voice	nmod:poss
18	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 counterfeiting	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 brought	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 brought	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 brought	nsubj:pass
22	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 brought	aux
23	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 replied	parataxis
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 brought	obj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 custard	det
26	custard	custard	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 brought	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sent	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 pot	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 pot	amod
30	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sent	nsubj:pass
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 butter	case
32	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pot	nmod
33	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 brought	conj
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 sent	iobj
35	by	by	ADP	_	36 mamma	case
36	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sent	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Your grandchild	the Wolf		tree rules
2	counterfeit	gerund	Your grandchild not said here	Wolf's voice		tree rules
3	bring in a quote	present · perfect · passive		you		tree rules
4	send in a quote	participle · passive	mamma	a little pot of butter	you	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Destination you=Theme

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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