The Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding Hood, sentence 5

“Go, my dear, and see how thy grandmamma does, for I hear she has been very ill; carry her a custard, and this little pot of butter.”

Who acts: you, grandmamma, day mother · What happens: go, see, do, hear, be, carry · To what, where: little pot, grandmamma · 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 (you, grandmamma, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dear	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dear	nmod:poss
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Go	vocative
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 see	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 see	cc
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Go	advcl
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 does	advmod
10	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 grandmamma	nmod:poss
11	grandmamma	grandmamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 does	nsubj
12	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 see	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hear	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 hear	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 hear	nsubj
16	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 see	conj
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ill	nsubj
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 ill	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 ill	cop
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 ill	advmod
21	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hear	ccomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 carry	punct
23	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 carry	obj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 custard	det
26	custard	custard	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 carry	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pot	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 pot	cc
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 pot	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 pot	amod
31	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Go	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 butter	case
33	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pot	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	imperative	you not said here	this little pot of butter		my dear vocative	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see in a quote	infinitive	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do in a quote	present	thy grandmamma				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hear in a quote	present	creature's day mother = mother				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	is in a quote	present · perfect	grandmamma			ill property	tree rules
6	carry in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		grandmamma		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme she=Beneficiary custard=Value

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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