The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 51
Just shake yourself off, and don’t hinder me, for I am off to Madrid to see the King,’ and hoppity-kick, hoppity-kick, away stumped Medio Pollito in great glee, for the towers and roofs of Madrid were now in sight.
Who acts: you, towers · What happens: shake off, not hinder off, see, stump, be · To what, where: yourself, me, Madrid, King, Medio, great glee
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 (you, towers), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 shake | advmod |
| 2 | shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 shake | obj |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 shake | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hinder | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hinder | cc |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 hinder | aux |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 hinder | advmod |
| 9 | hinder | hinder | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 shake | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 hinder | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 off | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 off | case |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 off | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 off | cop |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 hinder | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Madrid | case |
| 17 | Madrid | Madrid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hinder | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hinder | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 shake | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 shake | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 kick | cc |
| 25 | hoppity | hoppity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 kick | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 hoppity | punct |
| 27 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shake | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 kick | punct |
| 29 | hoppity | hoppity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 kick | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 hoppity | punct |
| 31 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 kick | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 stumped | punct |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 stumped | advmod |
| 34 | stumped | stump | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shake | conj |
| 35 | Medio | Medio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 stumped | obj |
| 36 | Pollito | Pollito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Medio | flat |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 glee | case |
| 38 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 glee | amod |
| 39 | glee | glee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 stumped | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 towers | punct |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 towers | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 towers | det |
| 43 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 sight | nsubj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 roofs | cc |
| 45 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 towers | conj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Madrid | case |
| 47 | Madrid | Madrid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 towers | nmod |
| 48 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 sight | cop |
| 49 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 51 sight | advmod |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 sight | case |
| 51 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shake | parataxis |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake off | imperative | you not said here | yourself | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not hinder off | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | me | Madrid | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | you not said here | the King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | stump | past | you not said here | Medio | great glee | away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus medio=Experiencer | ||
| 5 | is | past | the towers of Madrid and roofs | sight | now | tree rules |
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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