The Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding Hood, sentence 29
Little Red Riding-Hood pulled the bobbin, and the door opened.
Who acts: Hood, door · What happens: pull, open · To what, where: Little Red Riding
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 (Hood, door), 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 | 3 Riding | amod |
| 2 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Riding | flat |
| 3 | Riding | Riding | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pulled | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Riding | punct |
| 5 | Hood | Hood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pulled | nsubj |
| 6 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bobbin | det |
| 8 | bobbin | bobbin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pulled | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 opened | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 opened | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 opened | nsubj |
| 13 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pulled | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | Hood | Little Red Riding | 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 |
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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