The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 81

Dear, dear! how could you be so very foolish!”

Who acts: you · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. 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	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 foolish	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Dear	conj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Dear	punct
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 foolish	advmod
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 foolish	aux
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 foolish	nsubj
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 foolish	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 foolish	advmod
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 foolish	advmod
11	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 foolish	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 foolish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could	you					foolish property	tree rules

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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