--- title: One day her mother said to her: ‘Come, Little Red-Cap, here is a pie… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: One day her mother said to her: ‘Come, Little Red-Cap, here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine; take them to your grandmother, she is ill and weak, and they will do her good. Who acts: mother, girl, piece. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hoo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/) / 3 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\], sentence 3 One day her mother said to her: ‘Come, Little Red-Cap, here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine; take them to your grandmother, she is ill and weak, and they will do her good. **Who acts:** mother, girl, piece · **What happens:** say, come, be, take, do · **To what, where:** girl, Little, piece, grandmother · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (mother, girl, piece), 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:pg2591:23:3 # text = One day her mother said to her: ‘Come, Little Red-Cap, here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine; take them to your grandmother, she is ill and weak, and they will do her good. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 csubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Little Little ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 10 obl _ _ 13 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Cap Cap PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 parataxis _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 29 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 advcl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 45 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | girl's mother | | girl | | day | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | | 2 | **come** | infinitive | | Little and Cap | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | | a piece and a bottle of wine | | | | of cake | tree rules | | 4 | **take** | infinitive | | piece | your grandmother | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to grandmother=Destination | | 5 | **is** | present | girl | | | | | ill *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | girl *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **do** | future | piece | girl | | | | | 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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/4/) - ↑ back to [Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/)