The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 32

‘Help you, indeed!’ exclaimed Medio Pollito, tossing his head, and shaking the few feathers in his tail.

What happens: help, exclaim, toss, shake · To what, where: you, Medio, head, few feathers, tail · 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: 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	_	2 Help	punct
2	Help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 exclaimed	ccomp
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Help	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Help	punct
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 Help	advmod
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Help	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Help	punct
8	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Medio	Medio	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 exclaimed	obj
10	Pollito	Pollito	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Medio	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tossing	punct
12	tossing	toss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 exclaimed	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tossing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shaking	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 shaking	cc
17	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 exclaimed	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 feathers	det
19	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 feathers	amod
20	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 shaking	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 tail	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 tail	nmod:poss
23	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shaking	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	help	infinitive		you		indeed property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
2	exclaim speech: express	past	Medio				tree rules
3	toss	gerund	Medio's head				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	shake	gerund	the few feathers		Medio's tail		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent feather=Theme in tail=Trajectory

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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