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title: Little Red Riding-Hood, hearing the big voice of the Wolf, was at fi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Little Red Riding-Hood, hearing the big voice of the Wolf, was at first afraid; but believing her grandmother had got a cold and was hoarse, answered: Who acts: Little Red, believing. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Red Riding Hood, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding Hood, sentence 25

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Little Red Riding-Hood, hearing the big voice of the Wolf, was at first afraid; but believing her grandmother had got a cold and was hoarse, answered:

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**Who acts:** Little Red, believing · **What happens:** hear, be, believe, get, answer · **To what, where:** big voice, grandmother, cold

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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 (Little Red, believing), 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:pg503:9:25
# text = Little Red Riding-Hood, hearing the big voice of the Wolf, was at first afraid; but believing her grandmother had got a cold and was hoarse, answered:
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
3	Riding	Riding	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Hood	Hood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	advmod	_	_
18	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	believing	believe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	csubj:pass	_	_
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	obj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund | Little Red and Hood *not said here* | the big voice of the Wolf |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | Little Red and Hood |  |  |  |  | afraid, first *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **believe** | gerund |  | Wolf's grandmother |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grandmother=Stimulus |
| 4 | **get** | past · perfect | believing | a cold |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cold=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | past | believing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hoarse *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Little Red and Hood *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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:** «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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