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title: The huntsman drew off the wolf’s skin and went home with it; the gra… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The huntsman drew off the wolf’s skin and went home with it; the grandmother ate the cake and drank the wine which Red-Cap had brought, and revived, but Red-Cap thought to herself: ‘As long as I live, I will never by myself leave the path, to run into the wood, when my mother has forbidden me to do 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\], sentence 54

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The huntsman drew off the wolf’s skin and went home with it; the grandmother ate the cake and drank the wine which Red-Cap had brought, and revived, but Red-Cap thought to herself: ‘As long as I live, I will never by myself leave the path, to run into the wood, when my mother has forbidden me to do so.’

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**Who acts:** huntsman, grandmother, Red, I, myself, mother · **What happens:** draw off, go, eat, drink, bring, revive · **To what, where:** skin, cake, wine, Red, cap, path

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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 (huntsman, grandmother, Red, I), 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:pg2591:23:54
# text = The huntsman drew off the wolf’s skin and went home with it; the grandmother ate the cake and drank the wine which Red-Cap had brought, and revived, but Red-Cap thought to herself: ‘As long as I live, I will never by myself leave the path, to run into the wood, when my mother has forbidden me to do so.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	home	home	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
25	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Cap	Cap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	revived	revive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Cap	Cap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
42	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	As	as	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	54	advmod	_	_
45	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
46	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
49	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	advcl	_	_
51	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	54	advmod	_	_
52	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
53	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	54	nsubj	_	_
54	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	mark	_	_
59	run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	54	conj	_	_
60	into	into	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
64	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	68	mark	_	_
65	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	66	nmod:poss	_	_
66	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	nsubj	_	_
67	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	68	aux	_	_
68	forbidden	forbid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	62	acl:relcl	_	_
69	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	68	obj	_	_
70	to	to	PART	TO	_	71	mark	_	_
71	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	68	xcomp	_	_
72	so	so	ADV	RB	_	71	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw off** | past | the huntsman | the wolf's skin |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | the huntsman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with skin; home *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **eat** | past | the grandmother | the cake |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient |
| 4 | **drink** | past | the grandmother *not said here* | the wine |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient |
| 5 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | Red and Cap |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination which=Theme |
| 6 | **revive** | past | the grandmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Red and Cap |  | cap |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **live** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **not** **leave** | present | myself | the path |  |  |  | long *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme |
| 10 | **run** | to-infinitive | myself *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the wood *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result |
| 11 | **forbid** | present · perfect | my mother | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 12 | **do** | to-infinitive | my mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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