The Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding Hood, sentence 27
The Wolf cried out to her, softening his voice as much as he could:
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: cry out, soften · To what, where: hood, voice
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), 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 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 cried | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cried | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 softening | punct |
| 8 | softening | soften | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 cried | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 voice | nmod:poss |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 softening | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 softening | obj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 could | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 could | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 much | advcl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | the Wolf | hood | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | soften | gerund | the Wolf not said here | Red's voice | tree rules |
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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