The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 10
And she called him Medio Pollito, which is Spanish for half-chick.
Who acts: mother, Medio · What happens: call, be · To what, where: fellow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, Medio), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 called | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | obj |
| 5 | Medio | Medio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 6 | Pollito | Pollito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Medio | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Spanish | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 Spanish | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Spanish | cop |
| 10 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Medio | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 chick | case |
| 12 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 14 chick | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 half | punct |
| 14 | chick | chick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Spanish | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | mother | fellow | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Medio | for half chick; spanish 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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