The Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding Hood, sentence 9
The poor child, who did not know that it was dangerous to stay and hear a wolf talk, said to him:
Who acts: poor child, it · What happens: not know, be, stay, hear, say · To what, where: wolf talk, Gaffer · 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 (poor child, it), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 child | amod |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 know | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 know | advmod |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 child | acl:relcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 dangerous | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dangerous | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dangerous | cop |
| 12 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 know | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 stay | mark |
| 14 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dangerous | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hear | cc |
| 16 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 stay | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 talk | det |
| 18 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 talk | compound |
| 19 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hear | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 child | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | obl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | the poor child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | it | dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stay | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | hear | infinitive | a wolf talk | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer talk=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the poor child | Gaffer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=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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