The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 70

The little hood, you see, was one of those magic caps that they used to have in former times, in the stories, for making oneself invisible or invulnerable.

Who acts: you, little hood, jaws · What happens: see, be, use, have, make · To what, where: little hood, one, magic caps, oneself

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, little hood, jaws), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hood	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hood	amod
3	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 one	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
6	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hood	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 one	cop
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 caps	case
11	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 caps	det
12	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 caps	amod
13	caps	cap	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 used	obj
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 used	nsubj
16	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 caps	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 have	mark
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 used	xcomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 times	case
20	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 times	amod
21	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stories	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 stories	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stories	det
25	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 times	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 making	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 making	mark
28	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 have	advcl
29	oneself	oneself	PRON	Case=Acc Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 making	obj
30	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 making	xcomp
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 invulnerable	cc
32	invulnerable	invulnerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 invisible	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	you	the little hood not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hood=Stimulus
2	is a	past	the little hood	one		of that magic caps	tree rules
3	use	past	jaws = jaw	that magic caps			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent that=Theme clause=Eventuality
4	have	to-infinitive	jaws = jaw not said here		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	make	gerund	jaws = jaw not said here	oneself		invisible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset oneself=Product

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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