The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 36

“I suppose we shall have to eat the smallest of us,” replied the bear, and the marten turned round to seize the squirrel who was much smaller than any of the rest.

Who acts: bear, we, marten, squirrel · What happens: suppose, have, eat, reply, turn round, seize · To what, where: smallest, squirrel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, we, marten, squirrel), 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	_	3 suppose	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 suppose	nsubj
3	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 suppose	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 have	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 smallest	det
10	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 eat	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 us	case
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 smallest	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 replied	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 replied	punct
15	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 suppose	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bear	det
17	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 replied	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 turned	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 turned	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 marten	det
21	marten	marten	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 turned	nsubj
22	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 replied	conj
23	round	round	ADV	_	22 turned	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 seize	mark
25	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 turned	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 squirrel	det
27	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seize	obj
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 smaller	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 smaller	cop
30	much	much	ADV	_	31 smaller	advmod
31	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 squirrel	amod
32	than	than	ADP	_	33 any	case
33	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 smaller	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 rest	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 rest	det
36	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 any	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	suppose in a quote	present	the bear = bear			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have in a quote	shall	we			tree rules
3	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	the smallest		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent small=Patient
4	reply speech: assert	past	the bear			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	turn round	past	the marten		round property	tree rules
6	seize	to-infinitive	the marten not said here	the squirrel		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squirrel=Theme
7	is	past	the squirrel		than any; small property	tree rules

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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