The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 44

‘What a blind old fool you must be to ask such a question!’ she answered angrily.

Who acts: you, blind old fool · What happens: be, answer

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, blind old fool), 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	_	18 answered	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	6 fool	det
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fool	det
4	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fool	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fool	amod
6	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 answered	nsubj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 ask	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 ask	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 ask	cop
10	to	to	PART	_	11 ask	mark
11	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fool	parataxis
12	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	14 question	det:predet
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 question	det
14	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ask	obj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 ask	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 fool	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 answered	nsubj
18	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	18 answered	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	you					ask property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	what blind old fool					angrily property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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