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title: You know the tale of poor Little Red Riding-hood, that the Wolf dece… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You know the tale of poor Little Red Riding-hood, that the Wolf deceived and devoured, with her cake, her little butter can, and her Grandmother; well, the true story happened quite differently, as we know now. Who acts: You, Wolf, true story, we. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, T
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# The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 1

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You know the tale of poor Little Red Riding-hood, that the Wolf deceived and devoured, with her cake, her little butter can, and her Grandmother; well, the true story happened quite differently, as we know now.

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**Who acts:** You, Wolf, true story, we, poor Little Riding hood · **What happens:** know, deceive, devour, happen, tell · **To what, where:** tale, Grandmother, cake · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Wolf, true story, we), 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:pg540:33:1
# text = You know the tale of poor Little Red Riding-hood, that the Wolf deceived and devoured, with her cake, her little butter can, and her Grandmother; well, the true story happened quite differently, as we know now.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
7	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	Riding	Riding	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	hood	hood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	deceived	deceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	devoured	devour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	Grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	38	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
39	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	differently	differently	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
45	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	44	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | You | the tale of poor Little Riding hood |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus |
| 2 | **deceive** | past | the Wolf | Wolf's Grandmother |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **devour** | past | the Wolf *not said here* | Wolf's cake |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient |
| 4 | **happen** | past | the true story |  |  |  |  | differently *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **know** | present | we |  |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **tell** |  | poor Little Riding hood |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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