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title: ‘Whither away so early, Little Red-Cap?’ — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Whither away so early, Little Red-Cap?’ A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\], sentence 10

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‘Whither away so early, Little Red-Cap?’

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2591:23:10
# text = ‘Whither away so early, Little Red-Cap?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Cap	Cap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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