The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 40

‘Have you gone raving mad, Blackie?’ he asked as well as he could for laughing.

Who acts: you, circus · What happens: go, rave, ask, laugh · To what, where: Blackie

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, circus), 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 gone	punct
2	Have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 asked	advcl
5	raving	rave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 gone	xcomp
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 raving	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Blackie	punct
8	Blackie	Blackie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 asked	nsubj
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 well	advmod
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 asked	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 could	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 could	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 well	advcl
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 laughing	mark
19	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 could	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	present · perfect	you	Blackie		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	rave speech: other	gerund	you not said here		mad property	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	past	circus		well property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	laugh	gerund	circus not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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