The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 97
‘I think you must be crazy,’ said the man, ‘for you can’t be in your senses if you think of anything so foolish.’
Who acts: I, you, man · What happens: think, be, say, not be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 crazy | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 crazy | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 crazy | cop |
| 7 | crazy | crazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 think | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 senses | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 senses | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 senses | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 senses | nsubj |
| 17 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 senses | aux |
| 18 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 senses | advmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 senses | cop |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 senses | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 senses | nmod:poss |
| 22 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | parataxis |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 think | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 think | nsubj |
| 25 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 senses | advcl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 anything | case |
| 27 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 think | obl |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 foolish | advmod |
| 29 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 anything | amod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | must | you | crazy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not is | can | you | for your senses | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other a condition, not said to happen | present | you | of anything | 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 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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