--- title: Are you mad?’ asked the minister, but Hans answered quietly, ‘The su… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:33:76 # text = 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.’ 1 Are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 Hans Hans PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 13 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 ccomp _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 over over ADV RB _ 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 ccomp _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 camp camp VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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. - ← previous: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/33/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/33/77/) - ↑ back to [The Headless Dwarfs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/33/)