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title: “Your grandchild, Little Red Riding-Hood,” replied the Wolf, counter… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Your grandchild, Little Red Riding-Hood,” replied the Wolf, counterfeiting her voice; “who has brought you a custard and a little pot of butter sent you by mamma.” Who acts: grandchild, mamma. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Red Riding Hood, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding Hood, sentence 19

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“Your grandchild, Little Red Riding-Hood,” replied the Wolf, counterfeiting her voice; “who has brought you a custard and a little pot of butter sent you by mamma.”

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**Who acts:** grandchild, mamma · **What happens:** reply, counterfeit, bring, send · **To what, where:** Wolf, voice, you, little pot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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 (grandchild, mamma), 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:pg503:9:19
# text = “Your grandchild, Little Red Riding-Hood,” replied the Wolf, counterfeiting her voice; “who has brought you a custard and a little pot of butter sent you by mamma.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	grandchild	grandchild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	Riding	Riding	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Hood	Hood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
12	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	counterfeiting	counterfeit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	custard	custard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	iobj	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	mamma	mamma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Your grandchild | the Wolf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **counterfeit** | gerund | Your grandchild *not said here* | Wolf's voice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **send** *in a quote* | participle · passive | mamma | a little pot of butter | you |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Destination you=Theme |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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