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title: ‘Have you gone raving mad, Blackie?’ he asked as well as he could fo… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Have you gone raving mad, Blackie?’ he asked as well as he could for laughing. Who acts: you, circus. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 40

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

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

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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.

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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:pg7277:23:40
# text = ‘Have you gone raving mad, Blackie?’ he asked as well as he could for laughing.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
5	raving	rave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Blackie	Blackie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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 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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