The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 66

“Have you gone mad, wife, that you sit spinning without anything on the wheel?”

Who acts: you · What happens: go, sit, spin · To what, where: wife

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. 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 gone	punct
2	Have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gone	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wife	punct
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sit	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 sit	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 sit	nsubj
11	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	conj
12	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 sit	xcomp
13	without	without	ADP	_	14 anything	case
14	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 spinning	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 wheel	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wheel	det
17	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 anything	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · perfect	you	wife	mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit in a quote	present	you			tree rules
3	spin in a quote	gerund	you not said here		without anything	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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