The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 183
“What is to be done?” said the Queen.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 done | obj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | aux:pass |
| 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 | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Queen | det |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · passive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the Queen | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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