--- title: Red-Cap, however, quickly fetched great stones with which they fille… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Red-Cap, however, quickly fetched great stones with which they filled the wolf’s belly, and when he awoke, he wanted to run away, but the stones were so heavy that he collapsed at once, and fell dead. Who acts: Red Cap, wolf, stones. 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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 (Red Cap, wolf, stones), 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:pg2591:23:52 # text = Red-Cap, however, quickly fetched great stones with which they filled the wolf’s belly, and when he awoke, he wanted to run away, but the stones were so heavy that he collapsed at once, and fell dead. 1 Red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Cap Cap PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 however however ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 fetched fetch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 with with SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 filled fill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ’s 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 belly belly NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 awoke awake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 away away ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 34 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 parataxis _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 collapsed collapse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 40 at at ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 45 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fetch** | past | Red Cap | great stones | | | | however, quickly *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | | 2 | **fill** | past | | the wolf's belly | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent belly=Patient | | 3 | **awake** | past | wolf | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **want** | past | wolf | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **run away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | wolf *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | the stones | | | | | heavy *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **collapse** | past | wolf | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **fall** | past | Red Cap *not said here* | | | | | dead *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/53/) - ↑ back to [Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/)