The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 2
And first of all the little girl was called and is still called Little Golden-hood; secondly, it was not she, nor the good grand-dame, but the wicked Wolf who was, in the end, caught and devoured.
Who acts: hood, wicked Wolf · What happens: call, not be, be, catch, devour · To what, where: Little Golden hood, girl, end · 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 (hood, 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 | _ | 9 called | cc |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 called | advmod |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 girl | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 girl | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | obl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | aux:pass |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 called | cc |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 called | aux:pass |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 called | advmod |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 called | conj |
| 14 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hood | amod |
| 15 | Golden | Golden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 hood | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Golden | punct |
| 17 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | xcomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 secondly | punct |
| 19 | secondly | secondly | ADV | _ | 9 called | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 she | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 she | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 she | cop |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 she | advmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 called | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dame | punct |
| 26 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 31 dame | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 dame | det |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 dame | amod |
| 29 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 dame | amod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 grand | punct |
| 31 | dame | dame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 she | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 end | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 end | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Wolf | det |
| 35 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Wolf | amod |
| 36 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 end | nsubj |
| 37 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 end | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 end | cop |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 end | punct |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 end | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 end | det |
| 42 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dame | appos |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 caught | punct |
| 44 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 end | acl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 devoured | cc |
| 46 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 caught | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past · passive | of all little girl; first, secondly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 2 | call | present · passive | Little Golden hood | still | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | not is a | past | hood | girl | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the wicked Wolf | in the end | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | catch | participle | the end not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | devour | participle | vn devour-39.4 «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 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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