The Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding Hood, sentence 43
And, saying these words, this wicked wolf fell upon Little Red Riding-Hood, and ate her all up.
Who acts: wicked wolf · What happens: say, fall, eat · To what, where: words, Riding Hood, Wolf · 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 (wicked 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 saying | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saying | punct |
| 3 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saying | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 wolf | det |
| 8 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wolf | amod |
| 9 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saying | conj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 Hood | case |
| 12 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Red | amod |
| 13 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Hood | nsubj |
| 14 | Riding | Riding | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Hood | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Hood | punct |
| 16 | Hood | Hood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ate | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ate | cc |
| 19 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fell | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 ate | obj |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 up | advmod |
| 22 | up | up | ADV | _ | 19 ate | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | this words | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | this wicked wolf | Riding Hood | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon hood=Location | ||||
| 3 | eat | past | this wicked wolf not said here | Wolf | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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