The Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding Hood, sentence 4
One day her mother, having made some custards, said to her:
Who acts: day mother · What happens: make, say · To what, where: custards, creature · 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 (day mother), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mother | compound |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 6 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 made | aux |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 mother | acl |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 custards | det |
| 9 | custards | custard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 made | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mother | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund · perfect | creature's day mother not said here | some custards | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset custard=Product | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | creature's day mother | creature | 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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