The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 76

Are you mad?’ asked the minister, but Hans answered quietly, ‘The sun is set and my work is over, and I am going to camp here for the night.’

Who acts: you, Hans, work, I, my · What happens: be, ask, answer, set, go, camp · To what, where: minister, sun · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Hans, work, I), 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	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mad	cop
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 mad	nsubj
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 asked	advcl
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 mad	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 mad	punct
6	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 minister	det
8	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asked	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 answered	cc
11	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 answered	nsubj
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asked	parataxis
13	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	12 answered	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 set	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 set	punct
16	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sun	det
17	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 set	nsubj:pass
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 set	aux:pass
19	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 answered	ccomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 over	cc
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 work	nmod:poss
22	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 over	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 over	cop
24	over	over	ADV	_	19 set	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 going	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 going	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 going	nsubj
28	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 going	aux
29	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 asked	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 camp	mark
31	camp	camp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 going	xcomp
32	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 camp	advmod
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 night	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 night	det
35	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 camp	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 going	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you				mad property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past		the minister				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent minister=Recipient clause=Topic
3	answer speech: assert	past	Hans				quietly property	tree rules
4	set	present · passive		the sun				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
5	is	present	my work				over property	tree rules
6	go	present · progressive	I					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	camp	to-infinitive	I not said here		here	night		vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
8	work		my					nom work «act intransitive»: 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 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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