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title: ‘I think you must be crazy,’ said the man, ‘for you can’t be in your… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I think you must be crazy,’ said the man, ‘for you can’t be in your senses if you think of anything so foolish.’ Who acts: I, you, man. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 97

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‘I think you must be crazy,’ said the man, ‘for you can’t be in your senses if you think of anything so foolish.’

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**Who acts:** I, you, man · **What happens:** think, be, say, not be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:9:97
# text = ‘I think you must be crazy,’ said the man, ‘for you can’t be in your senses if you think of anything so foolish.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	crazy	crazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
17	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	senses	sens	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	parataxis	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	obl	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | must | you |  |  |  |  | crazy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **is** | can | you |  |  |  |  | for your senses | tree rules |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | of anything | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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