The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 44
I am off to Madrid to see the King,’ and hoppity-kick, hoppity-kick, away stumped Medio Pollito.
Who acts: Madrid, King · What happens: see, stump · To what, where: Medio · 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 (Madrid, King), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 am | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 am | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 5 | Madrid | Madrid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 see | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 am | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 stumped | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kick | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 kick | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kick | cc |
| 13 | hoppity | hoppity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kick | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 hoppity | punct |
| 15 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 King | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kick | punct |
| 17 | hoppity | hoppity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kick | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 hoppity | punct |
| 19 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 King | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 away | punct |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 stumped | advmod |
| 22 | stumped | stump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | ccomp |
| 23 | Medio | Medio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 stumped | obj |
| 24 | Pollito | Pollito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Medio | flat |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 am | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | to-infinitive | Madrid | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | stump | past | the King hoppity kick and hoppity kick | Medio | away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus medio=Experiencer |
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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