--- title: Little Red-Cap raised her eyes, and when she saw the sunbeams dancin… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Little Red-Cap raised her eyes, and when she saw the sunbeams dancing here and there through the trees, and pretty flowers growing everywhere, she thought: ‘Suppose I take grandmother a fresh nosegay; that would please her too. Who acts: Little Red Cap, cap, sunbeams, pretty flowers. 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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 (Little Red Cap, cap, sunbeams, pretty flowers), 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:pg2591:23:20 # text = Little Red-Cap raised her eyes, and when she saw the sunbeams dancing here and there through the trees, and pretty flowers growing everywhere, she thought: ‘Suppose I take grandmother a fresh nosegay; that would please her too. 1 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 2 Red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Cap Cap PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 sunbeams sunbeam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 dancing dance VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 16 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 conj _ _ 19 through through ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 growing grow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 27 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 31 : : PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 32 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 Suppose suppose INTJ UH _ 35 discourse _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 36 grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 nosegay nosegay NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ; ; PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 41 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 43 nsubj _ _ 42 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 please please VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 44 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 too too ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **raise** | past | Little Red Cap | cap's eyes | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | cap | the sunbeams | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sunbeam=Stimulus | | 3 | **dance** | gerund | the sunbeams *not said here* | | | the trees; here | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Location | | 4 | **grow** | gerund | pretty flowers | | | | | everywhere *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | cap | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **take** | present | I | grandmother | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument grandmother=Theme nosegay=Destination | | 7 | **please** | would | that | cap | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | 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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/21/) - ↑ back to [Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/)