The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 15
When she took the whole family out for a walk in the fields, Medio Pollito would hop away by himself, and hide among the Indian corn.
Who acts: mother, Medio · What happens: take, hop away, hide · To what, where: whole family, fields, Indian corn
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 hop | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 family | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 family | amod |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 walk | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 walk | det |
| 10 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 fields | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fields | det |
| 13 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 15 | Medio | Medio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 hop | nsubj |
| 16 | Pollito | Pollito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Medio | flat |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 hop | aux |
| 18 | hop | hop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 hop | advmod |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 himself | case |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 hop | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hide | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hide | cc |
| 24 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 hop | conj |
| 25 | among | among | ADP | _ | 28 corn | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 corn | det |
| 27 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 corn | amod |
| 28 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hide | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 hop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | mother | the whole family | the fields | for a walk; out property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent family=Value in field=Location | ||
| 2 | hop away | would | Medio | by Medio; away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | hide | present | Medio not said here | the Indian corn | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among corn=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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