The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 35
‘Why, you must be crazy, husband!
Who acts: you · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 7 crazy | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 crazy | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 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 | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 husband | punct |
| 9 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crazy | conj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 crazy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | you | crazy property | tree rules |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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