The Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding Hood, sentence 22

The Wolf pulled the bobbin, and the door opened, and then presently he fell upon the good woman and ate her up in a moment, for it was above three days that he had not touched a bit.

Who acts: Wolf, door, grandchild, bobbin · What happens: pull, open, fall, eat up, be, not touch · To what, where: bobbin, Wolf, bit

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, door, grandchild, bobbin), 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 pulled	nsubj
3	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bobbin	det
5	bobbin	bobbin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulled	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 opened	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 opened	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 opened	nsubj
10	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pulled	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fell	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 fell	advmod
14	presently	presently	ADV	_	16 fell	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fell	nsubj
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pulled	parataxis
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 woman	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 woman	det
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fell	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ate	cc
22	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fell	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ate	obj
24	up	up	ADP	_	22 ate	compound:prt
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 moment	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 moment	det
27	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ate	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 days	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	34 days	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 days	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 days	cop
32	above	above	ADP	_	34 days	case
33	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 days	nummod
34	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 ate	obl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 touched	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 touched	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 touched	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 touched	advmod
39	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 ate	advcl
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 bit	det
41	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 touched	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past	the Wolf	the bobbin			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bobbin=Theme
2	open	past	the door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall	past	grandchild		then	upon the good woman; presently property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon woman=Location
4	eat up	past	grandchild not said here	Wolf	moment		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	is	past	bobbin		for three days		tree rules
6	not touch	past · perfect	grandchild	a bit			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bit=Co-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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