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title: And, saying these words, this wicked wolf fell upon Little Red Ridin… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And, saying these words, this wicked wolf fell upon Little Red Riding-Hood, and ate her all up. Who acts: wicked wolf. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Red Riding Hood, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding Hood, sentence 43

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And, saying these words, this wicked wolf fell upon Little Red Riding-Hood, and ate her all up.

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**Who acts:** wicked wolf · **What happens:** say, fall, eat · **To what, where:** words, Riding Hood, Wolf · **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 (wicked wolf), 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:pg503:9:43
# text = And, saying these words, this wicked wolf fell upon Little Red Riding-Hood, and ate her all up.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	Riding	Riding	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Hood	Hood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	up	up	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | this words |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 2 | **fall** | past | this wicked wolf |  |  | Riding Hood |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon hood=Location |
| 3 | **eat** | past | this wicked wolf *not said here* | Wolf |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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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