The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 60
‘Oh! what a big tongue you’ve got, Grandmother!’
Who acts: you · What happens: get · To what, where: big tongue
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), 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 what | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 what | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tongue | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tongue | amod |
| 7 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 what | nsubj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 9 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 got | aux |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 tongue | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Grandmother | punct |
| 12 | Grandmother | Grandmother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 what | appos |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 Grandmother | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | you | a big tongue not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tongue=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 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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