The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 56

Oh! how wet and clammy the water felt as it went over Medio Pollito’s head, making his feathers cling to his side.

Who acts: water, thing, feathers · What happens: feel, go, make, cling · To what, where: head

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 (water, thing, feathers), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 wet	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 wet	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wet	advmod
4	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 clammy	cc
6	clammy	clammy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wet	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 felt	nsubj
9	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wet	parataxis
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 went	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 felt	ccomp
13	over	over	ADP	_	17 head	case
14	Medio	Medio	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 head	nmod:poss
15	Pollito	Pollito	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Medio	flat
16	’s	's	PART	_	14 Medio	case
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 making	punct
19	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 went	advcl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 feathers	nmod:poss
21	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 cling	nsubj
22	cling	cling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 making	xcomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 side	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 side	nmod:poss
25	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cling	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the water			vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	go	past	thing	Medio's head		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over head=Initial_Location
3	make	gerund	thing not said here			tree rules
4	cling	present	Medio's feathers		to Medio's side	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to side=Co-Theme

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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