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title: Little Red Riding-Hood undressed herself, and went into bed; where,… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Little Red Riding-Hood undressed herself, and went into bed; where, being greatly amazed to see how her grand-mother looked in her night-cloaths, she said to her: Who acts: Hood, grand mother. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, with its 
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1, sentence 31

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Little Red Riding-Hood undressed herself, and went into bed; where, being greatly amazed to see how her grand-mother looked in her night-cloaths, she said to her:

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**Who acts:** Hood, grand mother · **What happens:** undress, go, be, see, look, say · **To what, where:** Little Red Riding, bed, mother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hood, grand mother), 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:pg29021:7:31
# text = Little Red Riding-Hood undressed herself, and went into bed; where, being greatly amazed to see how her grand-mother looked in her night-cloaths, she said to her:
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
3	Riding	Riding	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Hood	Hood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	undressed	undress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
17	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	amazed	amazed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
29	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	cloaths	cloath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undress** | past | Hood | Little Red Riding |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | past | Hood *not said here* |  |  | bed |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into bed=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | Hood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | amazed, greatly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | Hood *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **look** | past | Hood's grand mother |  |  |  |  | in Hood's night cloaths | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cloath=Theme |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Hood |  | mother |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |

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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:** «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.

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