The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 50

She asked if he had gone out of his mind, but he answered crossly, ‘What is that to you?

Who acts: wife, donkey · What happens: ask, go out, answer, be, mind · To what, where: mind, you, that

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, donkey), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 gone	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gone	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 asked	ccomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 mind	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 mind	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mind	nmod:poss
10	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 answered	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 answered	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 answered	nsubj
14	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
15	crossly	crossly	ADV	_	14 answered	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 that	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 that	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 that	obj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 that	cop
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 answered	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 answered	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	wife				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go out a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	donkey	donkey's mind			tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	past	donkey		you	crossly property	vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent
4	is a	present		that			tree rules
5	mind		donkey				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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