--- title: One day Red-Cap's mother said to her, "Come, Red-Cap, here is a nice… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: One day Red-Cap's mother said to her, "Come, Red-Cap, here is a nice piece of meat, and a bottle of wine: take these to your grandmother; she is weak and ailing, and they will do her good. Who acts: mother, Red. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, Red), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11027:14:2 # text = One day Red-Cap's mother said to her, "Come, Red-Cap, here is a nice piece of meat, and a bottle of wine: take these to your grandmother; she is weak and ailing, and they will do her good. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Cap Cap PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 Come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 csubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Cap Cap PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 parataxis _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 parataxis _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 33 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 34 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 33 obj _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 41 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 ailing ail VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 46 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 47 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 conj _ _ 49 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ _ 50 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Red Cap's mother | | cap | | day | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Red and Cap | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location red=Theme | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | a nice piece | | | | of meat | tree rules | | 4 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | | these | your grandmother | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Theme to grandmother=Destination | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | mother | | | | | weak *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **ail** *in a quote* | gerund | mother *not said here* | | | | | | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **do** *in a quote* | future | Red | mother | | | | | tree rules | 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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/14/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/14/3/) - ↑ back to [Little Red Cap](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/14/)