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title: It is so early in the day that I shall still get there in good time’… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is so early in the day that I shall still get there in good time’; and so she ran from the path into the wood to look for flowers. Who acts: nosegay, I, 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
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\], sentence 21

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It is so early in the day that I shall still get there in good time’; and so she ran from the path into the wood to look for flowers.

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**Who acts:** nosegay, I, cap · **What happens:** be, get, run, look · **To what, where:** that, day, path

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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: who acts (nosegay, I, 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:pg2591:23:21
# text = It is so early in the day that I shall still get there in good time’; and so she ran from the path into the wood to look for flowers.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is** | present | nosegay |  |  |  | in the day | early *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | shall | I | that |  | there | still; time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 3 | **run** | past | cap | the day *not said here* |  | the path |  | into the wood | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent day=Theme from path=Initial\_Location into wood=Destination |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | cap *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for flowers | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for flower=Theme |

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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:** «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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