The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 126

“What’s to be done now?” said Rasmus.

Who acts: Rasmus · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rasmus), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 done	obj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	6 done	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 done	aux:pass
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	ccomp
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 done	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Rasmus	Rasmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present · passive					now		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality
2	say speech: ask	past	Rasmus						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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