The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 22

‘To Madrid, Medio Pollito!’ exclaimed his mother; ‘why, you silly chick, it would be a long journey for a grown-up cock, and a poor little thing like you would be tired out before you had gone half the distance.

Who acts: Madrid, you, manner, poor little thing · What happens: exclaim, chick, be, grow up, go · To what, where: mother, long journey, distance

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 (Madrid, you, manner, poor little thing), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 exclaimed	punct
2	To	to	ADP	_	3 Madrid	case
3	Madrid	Madrid	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 exclaimed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Pollito	punct
5	Medio	Medio	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Pollito	compound
6	Pollito	Pollito	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Madrid	appos
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 Pollito	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 Pollito	punct
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 exclaimed	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 exclaimed	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 exclaimed	punct
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 exclaimed	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 chick	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 chick	nsubj
17	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 chick	amod
18	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 exclaimed	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 journey	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 journey	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 journey	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 journey	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 journey	det
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 journey	amod
25	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 chick	appos
26	for	for	ADP	_	31 cock	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 cock	det
28	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 cock	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 up	punct
30	up	up	ADP	_	28 grown	compound:prt
31	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 journey	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 tired	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 tired	cc
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 thing	det
35	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 thing	amod
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 thing	amod
37	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 tired	nsubj
38	like	like	ADP	_	39 you	case
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 thing	nmod
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 tired	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 tired	cop
42	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 exclaimed	parataxis
43	out	out	ADV	_	42 tired	advmod
44	before	before	SCONJ	_	47 gone	mark
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 gone	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 gone	aux
47	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 tired	advcl
48	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	50 distance	det:predet
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 distance	det
50	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 gone	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	Madrid	Madrid's mother		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic
2	chick		you			tree rules
3	is a	would	manner	a long journey	for a grown cock	tree rules
4	grow up	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	would	a poor little thing like you		out, tired property	tree rules
6	go	past · perfect	you	half distance		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/6/22/