The Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding Hood, sentence 20

The good grandmother, who was in bed, because she was somewhat ill, cried out:

Who acts: good grandmother, pot · What happens: be, cry out · To what, where: bed, good grandmother

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 (good grandmother, pot), 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	3 grandmother	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grandmother	amod
3	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bed	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 bed	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bed	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 bed	case
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grandmother	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ill	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 ill	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ill	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 ill	cop
13	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	14 ill	advmod
14	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grandmother	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct
16	cried	cry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 ill	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 cried	compound:prt
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 grandmother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the good grandmother and bed		bed		tree rules
2	is	past	pot	the good grandmother and bed not said here		ill, somewhat property	tree rules
3	cry out speech: express	participle	pot not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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