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title: The grandmother lived far away in the wood, a long walk from the vil… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The grandmother lived far away in the wood, a long walk from the village, and as Little Red-Cap came among the trees she met a Wolf; but she did not know what a wicked animal it was, and so she was not at all frightened. " Who acts: grandmother, wicked animal. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» b
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Red Cap, sentence 4

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The grandmother lived far away in the wood, a long walk from the village, and as Little Red-Cap came among the trees she met a Wolf; but she did not know what a wicked animal it was, and so she was not at all frightened. "

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**Who acts:** grandmother, wicked animal · **What happens:** live, come, meet, not know, be · **To what, where:** wood, trees, Wolf · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (grandmother, wicked animal), 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:pg11027:14:4
# text = The grandmother lived far away in the wood, a long walk from the village, and as Little Red-Cap came among the trees she met a Wolf; but she did not know what a wicked animal it was, and so she was not at all frightened. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Cap	Cap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	among	among	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
37	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	36	ccomp	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
45	so	so	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
48	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
49	at	at	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	51	det	_	_
51	frightened	frightened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	51	punct	_	_
53	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the grandmother |  |  | the wood and a long walk from the village |  | away *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |
| 2 | **come** | past | the grandmother *not said here* |  |  | the trees |  | as Little Red and Cap | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=Location |
| 3 | **meet** | past | grandmother | a Wolf |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | grandmother |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | past | a wicked animal |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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