The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 19

On his return he strutted up to his mother with the peculiar little hop and kick which was his way of walking, and cocking his one eye at her in a very bold way he said:

Who acts: Medio, peculiar little hop · What happens: strut up, be, cock, say, return · To what, where: return, way, one eye, bold way · 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, peculiar little hop), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 return	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 return	nmod:poss
3	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strutted	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 strutted	nsubj
5	strutted	strut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 strutted	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 mother	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strutted	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	14 hop	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hop	det
12	peculiar	peculiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hop	amod
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hop	amod
14	hop	hop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mother	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 kick	cc
16	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hop	conj
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 way	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 way	cop
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 way	nmod:poss
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hop	parataxis
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 walking	case
22	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 way	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cocking	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cocking	cc
25	cocking	cock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 strutted	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 eye	nmod:poss
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 eye	nummod
28	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cocking	obj
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cocking	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	35 way	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 way	det
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 bold	advmod
34	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 way	amod
35	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cocking	obl
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 said	nsubj
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 way	acl:relcl
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 strutted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strut up	past	Medio		Medio's return	to Medio's mother with the peculiar little hop and kick	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on return=Trajectory
2	is a	past	the peculiar little hop and kick	Medio's way		of walking	tree rules
3	cock	gerund	Medio not said here	Medio's one eye		at mother; in a bold way	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Patient in way=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past	Medio	a bold way not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent way=Topic
5	return		Medio				nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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