--- title: ‘A good quarter of a league farther on in the wood; her house stands… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: ‘A good quarter of a league farther on in the wood; her house stands under the three large oak-trees, the nut-trees are just below; you surely must know it,’ replied Little Red-Cap. Who acts: house, nut trees, you. 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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 (house, nut trees, you), 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:pg2591:23:15 # text = ‘A good quarter of a league farther on in the wood; her house stands under the three large oak-trees, the nut-trees are just below; you surely must know it,’ replied Little Red-Cap. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 league league NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 farther far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 under under ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 19 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 20 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 21 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 nut nut NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 just just ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 below below ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 surely surely ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 ccomp _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 40 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 41 Little Little ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 42 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 Cap Cap PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | present | grandmother's house | a good quarter of a league | | the three large oak trees | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | | 2 | **is** | present | the nut trees | | | | | below *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **know** | must | you | house | | | | surely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 4 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | | Little Red Cap | | | | | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/16/) - ↑ back to [Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/)