The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 88

How can you be so silly as to think of such a thing?”

Who acts: you · What happens: be, think

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 silly	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 silly	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 silly	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 silly	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 silly	advmod
6	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 think	mark
8	to	to	PART	_	9 think	mark
9	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 silly	advcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 thing	case
11	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	13 thing	det:predet
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thing	det
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 think	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 silly	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 silly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	you					silly property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	you not said here					of such thing	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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