The Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding Hood, sentence 25

Little Red Riding-Hood, hearing the big voice of the Wolf, was at first afraid; but believing her grandmother had got a cold and was hoarse, answered:

Who acts: Little Red, believing · What happens: hear, be, believe, get, answer · To what, where: big voice, grandmother, cold

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 (Little Red, believing), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Red	amod
2	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 afraid	nsubj
3	Riding	Riding	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Red	flat
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Hood	punct
5	Hood	Hood	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Red	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hearing	punct
7	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Red	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 voice	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 voice	amod
10	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hearing	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Wolf	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Wolf	det
13	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 voice	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Red	punct
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 afraid	cop
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 afraid	case
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 afraid	advmod
18	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 got	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 got	cc
21	believing	believe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 got	csubj:pass
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 grandmother	nmod:poss
23	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 believing	obj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 got	aux
25	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 afraid	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 cold	det
27	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 got	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hoarse	cc
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 hoarse	cop
30	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 got	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 answered	punct
32	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 afraid	advcl
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	Little Red and Hood not said here	the big voice of the Wolf		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
2	is	past	Little Red and Hood		afraid, first property	tree rules
3	believe	gerund		Wolf's grandmother		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grandmother=Stimulus
4	get	past · perfect	believing	a cold		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cold=Stimulus
5	is	past	believing not said here		hoarse property	tree rules
6	answer speech: assert	past	Little Red and Hood not said here			vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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