The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 31

He must be mad! fit for a strait waistcoat!’ cried the good man, when he was able to speak.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, cry, speak · To what, where: good man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mad	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 mad	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 mad	cop
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 fit	punct
6	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mad	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 waistcoat	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 waistcoat	det
9	strait	strait	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 waistcoat	amod
10	waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fit	nmod
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 mad	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 mad	punct
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mad	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cried	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 able	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 able	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 able	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 able	cop
21	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mad	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 speak	mark
23	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	must	man		fit for a strait waistcoat obl; mad property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past		the good man		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	man		able property	tree rules
4	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	man not said here			vn talk-37.5 «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 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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