The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 63
Medio Pollito,’ answered the fire, ‘you would not help me when I was dying away in the wood.
Who acts: Medio, you, I · What happens: answer, not help, die away · To what, where: fire, me
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 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | Pollito | Pollito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Medio | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Medio | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Medio | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fire | det |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | 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 answered | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 help | obj |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 dying | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 dying | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 dying | aux |
| 18 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 help | advcl |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 dying | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 wood | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wood | det |
| 22 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dying | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Medio | the fire | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not help | would | you | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | die away | past · progressive | I | in the wood; away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in wood=Attribute |
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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