The Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding Hood, sentence 23

He then shut the door and went into the grandmother’s bed, expecting Little Red Riding-Hood, who came some time afterward and knocked at the door--tap, tap.

Who acts: grandchild, Little Red · What happens: shut, go, expect, come, knock · To what, where: door, bed, Little Red

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, Little Red), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shut	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 shut	advmod
3	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shut	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shut	conj
8	into	into	ADP	_	12 bed	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grandmother	det
10	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bed	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 grandmother	case
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 expecting	punct
14	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 went	advcl
15	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Red	amod
16	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 expecting	obj
17	Riding	Riding	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Red	flat
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 Hood	punct
19	Hood	Hood	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Red	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 Red	acl:relcl
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl:unmarked
25	afterward	afterward	ADV	_	24 time	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 knocked	cc
27	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 came	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 door	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 door	det
30	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 knocked	obl
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 tap	punct
32	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 door	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 tap	punct
34	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 door	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut	past	grandchild	the door		then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient
2	go	past	grandchild not said here		the grandmother's bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bed=Initial_Location
3	expect	gerund	grandchild not said here	Little Red and Hood				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent red=Theme
4	come	past	Little Red and Hood			time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	knock	past	Little Red and Hood not said here				at the door and tap and tap	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient

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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