The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 9

So they took him to be christened, and the parson said: ‘You’ll never be able to put that child in a decent bed on account of his prickles.’

Who acts: children, parson, You · What happens: take, christen, say, not be, put, account · To what, where: farmer, child, decent bed, prickles · 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 (children, parson, You), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 christened	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 christened	aux:pass
7	christened	christen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 took	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 parson	det
11	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 able	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 able	punct
15	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 able	nsubj
16	’ll	'll	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 able	cop
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 able	advmod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 able	cop
19	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 put	mark
21	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 able	xcomp
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 child	det
23	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 bed	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 bed	det
26	decent	decent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bed	amod
27	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 account	case
29	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 prickles	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 prickles	nmod:poss
32	prickles	prickle	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 account	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	children = child		farmer			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	christen	to-infinitive · passive	children = child not said here					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»
3	say speech: assert	past	the parson					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not is	present	You				able property	tree rules
5	put	to-infinitive	You not said here	that child		a decent bed	on account of farmer's prickles	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme on account=Destination
6	account			farmer's prickles				nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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