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title: All this time Red-Cap was gathering flowers; and when she had picked… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: All this time Red-Cap was gathering flowers; and when she had picked as many as she could carry, she thought of her grandmother, and hurried to the cottage. Who acts: Red, cap. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red Cap, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Red Cap, sentence 27

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All this time Red-Cap was gathering flowers; and when she had picked as many as she could carry, she thought of her grandmother, and hurried to the cottage.

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**Who acts:** Red, cap · **What happens:** gather, pick, carry, think, hurry · **To what, where:** flowers, cap, cottage

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red Cap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Red, cap), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg11027:14:27
# text = All this time Red-Cap was gathering flowers; and when she had picked as many as she could carry, she thought of her grandmother, and hurried to the cottage.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Cap	Cap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	gathering	gather	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obj	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past · progressive | Red and Cap | flowers |  |  | time |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme |
| 2 | **pick** | past · perfect · passive |  | cap |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary many=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | could | cap |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | cap |  |  |  |  | of cap's grandmother | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hurry** | participle | cap *not said here* |  |  | the cottage |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cottage=Destination |

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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.

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**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.

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