The Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding Hood, sentence 30
The Wolf, seeing her come in, said to her, hiding himself under the bed-clothes:
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: see, come in, say, hide · To what, where: Wolf, hood, Riding, bed clothes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | 9 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeing | punct |
| 4 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Wolf | acl |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seeing | obj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seeing | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wolf | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hiding | punct |
| 13 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 hiding | obj |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 clothes | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 clothes | det |
| 17 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 clothes | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 bed | punct |
| 19 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 hiding | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the Wolf not said here | Wolf | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in | infinitive | Wolf not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Wolf | hood | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | hide | gerund | the Wolf not said here | Riding | the bed clothes | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient under clothes=Location |
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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