The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 59
Medio Pollito,’ replied the water, ‘you would not help me when I was a little stream away on the fields, now you must be punished.’
Who acts: Medio, you, I · What happens: reply, not help, be, punish · To what, where: water, me, little stream, you
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, you, I), 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 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | Pollito | Pollito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Medio | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Medio | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 help | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 help | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 help | advmod |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | advcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 help | obj |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 stream | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 stream | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stream | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 stream | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 stream | amod |
| 20 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 help | obl |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 help | advmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 fields | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fields | det |
| 24 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 away | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 punished | punct |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 punished | advmod |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 punished | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 punished | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 punished | aux:pass |
| 30 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 help | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Medio | the water | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent water=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not help | would | you | me | away property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | is a | past | I | a little stream | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | punish | must · passive | you | now | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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