The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 31

Medio Pollito,’ it cried, as the half-chick hopped along its banks, ‘do come and help me by clearing away these weeds.’

Who acts: Medio · What happens: cry, hop, come, help, clear away · To what, where: half chick, banks, me, weeds

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), 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	Medio	Medio	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
2	Pollito	Pollito	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Medio	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Medio	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Medio	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 chick	punct
8	as	as	ADP	_	12 chick	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chick	det
10	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 chick	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 half	punct
12	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obl
13	hopped	hop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 chick	acl
14	along	along	ADP	_	16 banks	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 banks	nmod:poss
16	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hopped	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
19	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cried	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 help	cc
22	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 come	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 help	obj
24	by	by	SCONJ	_	25 clearing	mark
25	clearing	clear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 help	advcl
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 clearing	advmod
27	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 weeds	det
28	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 clearing	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Medio				as the half chick	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hop	participle		the half chick not said here		stream's banks		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bank=Trajectory
3	come	infinitive · do-support	Medio not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	help	infinitive	Medio not said here		me			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
5	clear away	gerund	Medio not said here	this weeds			away property	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent weed=Source

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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