Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 34

‘Oh! grandmother,’ she said, ‘what big ears you have!’

Who acts: grandmother, you · What happens: say, ear, have · To what, where: big ears · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red-cap [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 (grandmother, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 grandmother	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 grandmother	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grandmother	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 grandmother	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ears	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 ears	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 ears	nsubj
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ears	amod
13	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	ccomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 ears	acl:relcl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 ears	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 ears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	grandmother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	ear				tree rules
3	have	present	you	big ears not said here	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient

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.

Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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