--- title: Red-Cap, however, was on her guard, and went straight forward on her… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Red-Cap, however, was on her guard, and went straight forward on her way, and told her grandmother that she had met the wolf, and that he had said ‘good morning’ to her, but with such a wicked look in his eyes, that if they had not been on the public road she was certain he would have eaten her up. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/56/) [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/) / 56 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\], sentence 56 Red-Cap, however, was on her guard, and went straight forward on her way, and told her grandmother that she had met the wolf, and that he had said ‘good morning’ to her, but with such a wicked look in his eyes, that if they had not been on the public road she was certain he would have eaten her up. **Who acts:** Red Cap, cap, wolf, eyes, public road · **What happens:** be, go, tell, meet, say, not be · **To what, where:** guard, way, grandmother, wolf, cap, public road · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Red Cap, cap, wolf, eyes), 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:pg2591:23:56 # text = Red-Cap, however, was on her guard, and went straight forward on her way, and told her grandmother that she had met the wolf, and that he had said ‘good morning’ to her, but with such a wicked look in his eyes, that if they had not been on the public road she was certain he would have eaten her up. 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 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 however however ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 guard guard NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 appos _ _ 14 straight straight ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 forward forward ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 iobj _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 met meet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 ccomp _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ _ 36 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 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 , _ 48 punct _ _ 43 but but CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 44 with with ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 45 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 48 det:predet _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 51 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 53 that that SCONJ IN _ 65 mark _ _ 54 if if SCONJ IN _ 62 mark _ _ 55 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 62 nsubj _ _ 56 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 62 aux _ _ 57 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 62 advmod _ _ 58 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 62 cop _ _ 59 on on ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 61 public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 62 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 nsubj _ _ 63 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 65 nsubj _ _ 64 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 65 cop _ _ 65 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 conj _ _ 66 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 69 nsubj _ _ 67 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 69 aux _ _ 68 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 69 aux _ _ 69 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 65 advcl _ _ 70 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 69 obj _ _ 71 up up ADP RP _ 69 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 72 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Red Cap | | | cap's guard | | however *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | past | | | | cap's way | | forward *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | | | cap's grandmother | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent grandmother=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **meet** | past · perfect | cap | the wolf | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Co-Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | wolf | | cap | | morning | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | | 6 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | eyes *= eye* | | | the public road | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | past | the public road | | | | | certain *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **eat up** | would · perfect | wolf | cap | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | 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 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/57/) - ↑ back to [Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/)