The Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding Hood, sentence 7

As she was going through the wood, she met with Gaffer Wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up, but he dared not, because of some faggot-makers hard by in the forest.

Who acts: hood, Gaffer · What happens: go, meet, have, eat up, not dare · To what, where: wood, great mind, hood

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, Gaffer), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 going	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 met	advcl
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 met	nsubj
10	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 Gaffer	case
12	Gaffer	Gaffer	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 met	obl
13	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Gaffer	flat
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Gaffer	acl:relcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 mind	det
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 great	advmod
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mind	amod
20	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 eat	mark
22	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 mind	acl
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 eat	obj
24	up	up	ADP	_	22 eat	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dared	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 dared	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dared	nsubj
28	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 met	conj
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 dared	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 makers	punct
31	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	36 makers	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	31 because	fixed
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 makers	det
34	faggot	faggot	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 makers	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 faggot	punct
36	makers	maker	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 dared	obl
37	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 makers	advmod
38	by	by	ADP	_	41 forest	case
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 forest	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 forest	det
41	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dared	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	hood		the wood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through wood=Initial_Location
2	meet	past	hood			with Gaffer	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with gaffer=Co-Agent
3	have	past	Gaffer	a great mind			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
4	eat up	to-infinitive	Gaffer not said here	hood			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	not dare	past	Gaffer			because some faggot makers; by the forest	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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