The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 62

‘Oh! what a mouthful of great white teeth you have, Grandmother!’

Who acts: you · What happens: have · To what, where: great white teeth

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	6 mouthful	det
6	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 what	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 teeth	case
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 teeth	amod
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 teeth	amod
10	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mouthful	nmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 teeth	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Grandmother	punct
14	Grandmother	Grandmother	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 what	appos
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 Grandmother	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	you	great white teeth not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=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: «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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