The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 26

“Paperarello, are you mad?” said they.

Who acts: Paperarello, clothes · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paperarello, clothes), 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	_	2 Paperarello	punct
2	Paperarello	Paperarello	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mad	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Paperarello	punct
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mad	cop
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 mad	nsubj
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 mad	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 mad	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mad	conj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 mad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Paperarello					mad property	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	clothes						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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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