The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 22
So the little girl stops to talk with the Wolf, who, for all that, she did not know in the least.
Who acts: little girl, girl · What happens: stop, talk, not know · To what, where: least
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 (little girl, girl), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 stops | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girl | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stops | nsubj |
| 5 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 talk | mark |
| 7 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stops | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 Wolf | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Wolf | det |
| 10 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 talk | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 that | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 that | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 that | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 that | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 that | det |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 Wolf | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 know | advmod |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stops | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 least | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 least | det |
| 24 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 know | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | the little girl | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | talk | to-infinitive | the little girl not said here | with the Wolf | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with wolf=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | girl | the least | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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