The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 39

Medio Pollito,’ cried the fire, in a weak, wavering voice as the half-chick approached, ‘in a few minutes I shall go quite out, unless you put some sticks and dry leaves upon me.

Who acts: Medio, I, you · What happens: cry, waver, approach, go, put · To what, where: fire, voice, half chick, sticks

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, I, you), 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	5 cried	nsubj
2	Pollito	Pollito	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Medio	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Medio	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Medio	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 weak	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 weak	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 weak	det
11	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cried	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wavering	punct
13	wavering	waver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 weak	advcl
14	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wavering	obj
15	as	as	ADP	_	19 chick	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 chick	det
17	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	19 chick	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 half	punct
19	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wavering	obl
20	approached	approach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 chick	acl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 go	punct
22	‘	‘	CCONJ	_	29 go	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 minutes	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 minutes	det
25	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 minutes	amod
26	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 go	obl
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 go	nsubj
28	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 go	aux
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	conj
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 out	advmod
31	out	out	ADV	_	29 go	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 put	punct
33	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	35 put	mark
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 put	nsubj
35	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 go	advcl
36	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	37 sticks	det
37	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 put	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 leaves	cc
39	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 leaves	amod
40	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 sticks	conj
41	upon	upon	ADP	_	42 me	case
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 put	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Medio	the fire			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Topic
2	waver	gerund	Medio not said here	voice		as the half chick	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location voice=Theme
3	approach	participle		the half chick not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	shall	I		minute	out property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	put a condition, not said to happen	present	you	some sticks and dry leaves		upon me	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme upon i=Destination

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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