The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 47
Medio Pollito,’ called the wind, ‘do hop up here, and help me to get free of these branches.
Who acts: Medio, me · What happens: call, hop up, help, get · To what, where: wind, me · 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 (Medio, me), 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 | 11 hop | nsubj |
| 2 | Pollito | Pollito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Medio | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Medio | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Medio | punct |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Medio | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wind | det |
| 7 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Medio | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 hop | punct |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 hop | aux |
| 11 | hop | hop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 hop | compound:prt |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 hop | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 help | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 help | cc |
| 16 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hop | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 help | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 help | xcomp |
| 20 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 get | xcomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 branches | case |
| 22 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 branches | det |
| 23 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 free | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 hop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | Medio not said here | the wind | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wind=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | hop up | present · do-support | Medio | here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | help | infinitive | Medio not said here | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | me not said here | free property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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