--- title: "Your grand-child, Little Red Riding-Hood," replied the Wolf, counte… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: "Your grand-child, Little Red Riding-Hood," replied the Wolf, counterfeiting her voice, "who has brought you a girdle-cake, and a little pot of butter, sent you by mamma." Who acts: grand child, little pot. 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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 (grand child, little pot), 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:pg29021:7:19 # text = "Your grand-child, Little Red Riding-Hood," replied the Wolf, counterfeiting her voice, "who has brought you a girdle-cake, and a little pot of butter, sent you by mamma." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 Little Little ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 9 Riding Riding PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Hood Hood PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 14 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 counterfeiting counterfeit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 advcl _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 girdle girdle NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 39 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 iobj _ _ 41 by by ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 mamma mamma NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Your grand child | the Wolf | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic | | 2 | **counterfeit** | gerund | Your grand child *not said here* | Wolf's voice | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | you | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **send** *in a quote* | past | a little pot of butter | | you | | | by mamma | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:** «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/7/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/7/20/) - ↑ back to [\_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/7/)