The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 1
You know the tale of poor Little Red Riding-hood, that the Wolf deceived and devoured, with her cake, her little butter can, and her Grandmother; well, the true story happened quite differently, as we know now.
Who acts: You, Wolf, true story, we, poor Little Riding hood · What happens: know, deceive, devour, happen, tell · To what, where: tale, Grandmother, cake · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden 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, Wolf, true story, we), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tale | det |
| 4 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hood | case |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hood | amod |
| 7 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hood | amod |
| 8 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hood | nsubj |
| 9 | Riding | Riding | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hood | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 hood | punct |
| 11 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tale | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 deceived | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 deceived | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Wolf | det |
| 15 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 deceived | nsubj |
| 16 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 devoured | cc |
| 18 | devoured | devour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 deceived | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cake | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 cake | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 cake | nmod:poss |
| 22 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 devoured | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 can | punct |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 butter | nmod:poss |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 butter | amod |
| 26 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 can | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 devoured | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Grandmother | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Grandmother | cc |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 Grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 31 | Grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 deceived | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 happened | punct |
| 33 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 38 happened | discourse |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 well | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 story | det |
| 36 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 story | amod |
| 37 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 happened | nsubj |
| 38 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | conj |
| 39 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 40 differently | advmod |
| 40 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 38 happened | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 know | punct |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 know | mark |
| 43 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 know | nsubj |
| 44 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | conj |
| 45 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 know | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | You | the tale of poor Little Riding hood | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | deceive | past | the Wolf | Wolf's Grandmother | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | devour | past | the Wolf not said here | Wolf's cake | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient | ||||
| 4 | happen | past | the true story | differently property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | know | present | we | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | tell | poor Little Riding hood | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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