The Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding Hood, sentence 32
Little Red Riding-Hood undressed herself and went into bed, where, being greatly amazed to see how her grandmother looked in her night-clothes, she said to her:
Who acts: Hood, grandmother · What happens: undress, go, be, see, look, say · To what, where: Little Red Riding, bed, grandmother · 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 (Hood, grandmother), 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 undressed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Riding | punct |
| 5 | Hood | Hood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 undressed | nsubj |
| 6 | undressed | undress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 undressed | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 undressed | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 bed | case |
| 11 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 where | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 amazed | punct |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 amazed | cop |
| 16 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 17 amazed | advmod |
| 17 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 went | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 amazed | xcomp |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 looked | advmod |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 looked | nsubj |
| 23 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | advcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 clothes | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 clothes | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 night | punct |
| 28 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 23 looked | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 said | punct |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 said | nsubj |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 undressed | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 her | case |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 said | obl |
| 34 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 undressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undress | past | Hood | Little Red Riding | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Hood not said here | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | amazed, greatly property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | look | past | hood's grandmother | in hood's night clothes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in clothes=Theme | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | hood | grandmother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
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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