The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 14

But Medio Pollito had a roving spirit in spite of his one leg, and when his mother called to him to return to the coop, he pretended that he could not hear, because he had only one ear.

Who acts: Medio, mother · What happens: have, rove, call, return, pretend, not hear · To what, where: roving spirit, spite, Medio, one ear, one leg · 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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 had	cc
2	Medio	Medio	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
3	Pollito	Pollito	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Medio	flat
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spirit	det
6	roving	rove	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 spirit	amod
7	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 spite	case
9	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spirit	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 leg	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 leg	nmod:poss
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 leg	nummod
13	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spite	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 called	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 called	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 called	advmod
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 called	nsubj
19	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 had	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 called	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 return	mark
23	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 called	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 coop	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 coop	det
26	coop	coop	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 return	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pretended	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 pretended	nsubj
29	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 hear	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 hear	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 hear	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 hear	advmod
34	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 pretended	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 had	punct
36	because	because	SCONJ	_	38 had	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 hear	ccomp
39	only	only	ADV	_	40 one	advmod
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 ear	nummod
41	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 had	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Medio	a roving spirit		spite of Medio's one leg		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Patient
2	rove	gerund						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call	participle	Medio's mother		Medio			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	return	to-infinitive	Medio's mother not said here				to the coop result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to coop=Result
5	pretend	past	Medio					tree rules
6	not hear	could	Medio					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	have	past	Medio	one ear				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
8	spite			Medio's one leg				nom spite «feeling 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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