The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 139

‘Are you mad?’ they all exclaimed.

Who acts: you, shoemakers · What happens: be, exclaim

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, shoemakers), 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	_	4 mad	punct
2	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mad	cop
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 mad	nsubj
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mad	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 mad	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 exclaimed	nsubj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 exclaimed	advmod
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mad	acl:relcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you					mad property	tree rules
2	exclaim speech: express	past	shoemakers = shoemaker						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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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