The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 11

Now though Medio Pollito was such an odd, helpless-looking little thing, his mother soon found that he was not at all willing to remain under her wing and protection.

Who acts: Medio, mother · What happens: look, be, find, not be, remain · To what, where: odd looking little thing, all, wing

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 (Medio, mother), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 found	advmod
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 thing	mark
3	Medio	Medio	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 thing	nsubj
4	Pollito	Pollito	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Medio	flat
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thing	cop
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	14 thing	det:predet
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 thing	det
8	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thing	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 odd	punct
10	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 looking	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 helpless	punct
12	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 thing	amod
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thing	amod
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 found	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thing	punct
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mother	nmod:poss
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 found	nsubj
18	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 found	advmod
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 willing	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 willing	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 willing	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 willing	advmod
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 all	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 willing	obl
26	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 found	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 remain	mark
28	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 willing	xcomp
29	under	under	ADP	_	31 wing	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 wing	nmod:poss
31	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 remain	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 protection	cc
33	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wing	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	past	Medio	such odd looking little thing				tree rules
3	find	past	Medio's mother			now	soon property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	not is	past	Medio		all		willing property	tree rules
5	remain	to-infinitive	Medio not said here		mother's wing and protection			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under wing=Location

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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