The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 36
"Grand-mamma, what great ears you have got!"
Who acts: Grand mamma, you · What happens: ear, get · To what, where: great ears
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grand mamma, 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 mamma | punct |
| 2 | Grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mamma | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Grand | punct |
| 4 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ears | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 ears | nsubj |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ears | amod |
| 8 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mamma | conj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 got | aux |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 ears | acl:relcl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 mamma | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mamma | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ear in a quote | Grand mamma and great ears | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present · perfect | you | great ears not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Stimulus |
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: «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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