Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 36
‘But, grandmother, what big eyes you have!’ she said.
Who acts: grandmother, you · What happens: eye, have, say · To what, where: big eyes · 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 | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grandmother | punct |
| 4 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 eyes | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 eyes | nsubj |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eyes | amod |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grandmother | appos |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 grandmother | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 grandmother | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eye | grandmother | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | have | present | you | big eyes not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | grandmother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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