The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 7
This little hood was given her by her Grandmother, who was so old that she did not know her age; it ought to bring her good luck, for it was made of a ray of sunshine, she said.
Who acts: Grandmother, girl, hood · What happens: give, be, not know, bring, make, say · To what, where: little hood, age, good luck, girl, hood, sunshine · 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 (Grandmother, girl, hood), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 hood | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hood | amod |
| 3 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux:pass |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 given | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Grandmother | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 old | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 old | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 old | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 old | advmod |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Grandmother | amod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 know | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 know | advmod |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 old | advcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 age | nmod:poss |
| 21 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 know | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 bring | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bring | nsubj |
| 24 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 bring | aux |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 bring | mark |
| 26 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 given | parataxis |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bring | obj |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 luck | amod |
| 29 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bring | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 made | punct |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 made | mark |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 made | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 made | aux:pass |
| 34 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 bring | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 ray | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 ray | det |
| 37 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 made | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 sunshine | case |
| 39 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ray | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 said | punct |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 said | nsubj |
| 42 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 made | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | girl's Grandmother | this little hood | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | girl's Grandmother | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | girl | girl's age | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer age=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | bring | ought | hood | good luck | girl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination luck=Theme | |||
| 5 | make | past · passive | hood | of a ray of sunshine | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | ray | sunshine | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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