--- title: Little Red-Cap, however, had been running about picking flowers, and… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Little Red-Cap, however, had been running about picking flowers, and when she had gathered so many that she could carry no more, she remembered her grandmother, and set out on the way to her. Who acts: cap, Little Red Cap. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red-cap [little Re --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/30/) [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/) / 30 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\], sentence 30 Little Red-Cap, however, had been running about picking flowers, and when she had gathered so many that she could carry no more, she remembered her grandmother, and set out on the way to her. **Who acts:** cap, Little Red Cap · **What happens:** run, pick, gather, carry, remember, set out · **To what, where:** flowers, many, more, grandmother, cap, way 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 (cap, Little Red Cap), 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:pg2591:23:30 # text = Little Red-Cap, however, had been running about picking flowers, and when she had gathered so many that she could carry no more, she remembered her grandmother, and set out on the way to her. 1 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 2 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Cap Cap PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 however however ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 aux _ _ 10 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 appos _ _ 11 about about SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 picking pick VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 13 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 gathered gather VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 acl:relcl _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obj _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 26 no no ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 remembered remember VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 36 out out ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | past · perfect · progressive | | | | | | however *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **pick** | gerund | | flowers | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | | 3 | **gather** | past · perfect | cap | many | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme | | 4 | **carry** | could | cap | more | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme | | 5 | **remember** | past | Little Red Cap | cap's grandmother | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme | | 6 | **set out** | past | Little Red Cap *not said here* | | cap | the way | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial\_Location | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/31/) - ↑ back to [Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/)