The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 225
‘And now, my daughter, what is to be done?’ said the old man.
Who acts: ‘ · What happens: do, say · To what, where: ‘ · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (‘), 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 | ‘ | ‘ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 daughter | cc |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 daughter | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 daughter | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ‘ | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 done | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 done | obj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 done | aux:pass |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 done | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 done | aux:pass |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 ‘ | parataxis |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 done | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 done | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · passive | ‘ and my daughter | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | ‘ and my daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 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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