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title: And scarcely had the wolf said this, than with one bound he was out… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And scarcely had the wolf said this, than with one bound he was out of bed and swallowed up Red-Cap. Who acts: wolf. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\], sentence 42

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And scarcely had the wolf said this, than with one bound he was out of bed and swallowed up Red-Cap.

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**Who acts:** wolf · **What happens:** have, say, be, swallow up · **To what, where:** this, bed, Red · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wolf), 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:pg2591:23:42
# text = And scarcely had the wolf said this, than with one bound he was out of bed and swallowed up Red-Cap.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Cap	Cap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the wolf | this |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | wolf |  |  | bed |  | than one bound | tree rules |
| 4 | **swallow up** | participle |  | Red and Cap |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent red=Patient |

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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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