The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 26
‘I am going to my Grandmother, to take her a good piece of cake for her Sunday treat to-morrow.’
Who acts: I · What happens: go, take · To what, where: Grandmother
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 (I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Grandmother | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 piece | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 piece | amod |
| 14 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 cake | case |
| 16 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 piece | nmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 treat | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 treat | nmod:poss |
| 19 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 treat | compound |
| 20 | treat | treat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 morrow | case |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 to | punct |
| 23 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | I | to my Grandmother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grandmother=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | I not said here | Grandmother | for Grandmother's Sunday treat; to morrow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Theme piece=Destination |
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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