The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 7

I suppose the creature must be christened, but I don’t see how we are to ask anyone to be sponsor to him, and what are we to call him?’

Who acts: I, we · What happens: suppose, christen, not see, be · To what, where: creature, farmer, sponsor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 suppose	nsubj
2	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 creature	det
4	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 christened	nsubj:pass
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 christened	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 christened	aux:pass
7	christened	christen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 suppose	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 see	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 see	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 see	advmod
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 suppose	advcl
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 ask	advmod
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 ask	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 ask	cop
17	to	to	PART	_	18 ask	mark
18	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 see	advcl
19	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 ask	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	22 sponsor	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 sponsor	cop
22	sponsor	sponsor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ask	xcomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ask	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 call	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 call	cc
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 call	obj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 call	cop
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 call	nsubj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 call	mark
31	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 suppose	parataxis
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 call	obj
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 call	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	suppose	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	christen	must · passive		the creature			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	not see	present · do-support	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	we		farmer	ask property	tree rules
5	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	we not said here	sponsor			tree rules
6	is	present	we			call 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 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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