The Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding Hood, sentence 26
“‘Tis your grandchild, Little Red Riding-Hood, who has brought you a custard and a little pot of butter mamma sends you.”
Who acts: Tis · What happens: bring, send · To what, where: Little Red, you
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 (Tis), 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 | _ | 26 sends | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tis | punct |
| 3 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 sends | nsubj |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 grandchild | nmod:poss |
| 5 | grandchild | grandchild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Tis | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Red | punct |
| 7 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Red | amod |
| 8 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tis | conj |
| 9 | Riding | Riding | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Red | flat |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hood | punct |
| 11 | Hood | Hood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Red | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brought | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 brought | aux |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Red | parataxis |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 custard | det |
| 18 | custard | custard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 pot | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pot | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pot | amod |
| 22 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 custard | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 mamma | case |
| 24 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mamma | compound |
| 25 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pot | nmod |
| 26 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 sends | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 sends | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 sends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Little Red and Hood | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | send in a quote | present | Tis and Little Red and Hood | you | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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