--- title: When he had made two snips, he saw the little Red-Cap shining, and t… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When he had made two snips, he saw the little Red-Cap shining, and then he made two snips more, and the little girl sprang out, crying: ‘Ah, how frightened I have been! Who acts: wolf, little Red Cap, little girl, I. 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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 (wolf, little Red Cap, little girl, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2591:927`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2591:23:50 # text = When he had made two snips, he saw the little Red-Cap shining, and then he made two snips more, and the little girl sprang out, crying: ‘Ah, how frightened I have been! 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 snips snip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 12 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 Cap Cap PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 15 shining shine VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 21 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 snips snip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 amod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 sprang spring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 crying cry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 33 : : PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 34 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 35 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 38 discourse _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 38 frightened frightened ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 ccomp _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 40 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 41 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 38 cop _ _ 42 ! ! PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past · perfect | wolf | two snips | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snip=Product | | 2 | **see** | past | wolf | the little Red Cap | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **shine** | gerund | the little Red Cap *not said here* | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **make** | past | wolf | two snips | | | then | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snip=Product | | 5 | **spring out** | past | the little girl | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the little girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | present · perfect | I | | | | | frightened *property* | 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/51/) - ↑ back to [Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/)