The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 69
But the wind caught him up, and whirled him through the air so quickly that Medio Pollito could scarcely breathe, and his heart beat against his side till he thought it would break.
Who acts: wind, Medio, heart · What happens: catch up, whirl, breathe, beat, think, break · To what, where: Medio, air, side · 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 (wind, Medio, heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7277:363): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 caught | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | nsubj |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 caught | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 caught | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 whirled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 whirled | cc |
| 9 | whirled | whirl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 whirled | obj |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 air | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 air | det |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 whirled | obl |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 quickly | advmod |
| 15 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 9 whirled | advmod |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 breathe | mark |
| 17 | Medio | Medio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 breathe | nsubj |
| 18 | Pollito | Pollito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Medio | flat |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 breathe | aux |
| 20 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 21 breathe | advmod |
| 21 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 quickly | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 beat | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 beat | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 heart | nmod:poss |
| 25 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 beat | nsubj |
| 26 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | conj |
| 27 | against | against | ADP | _ | 29 side | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 side | nmod:poss |
| 29 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 beat | obl |
| 30 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 32 thought | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 thought | nsubj |
| 32 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 beat | advcl |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 break | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 break | aux |
| 35 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 thought | ccomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch up | past | the wind | Medio | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | whirl | past | the wind not said here | Medio | the air | quickly property | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme through air=Destination | ||
| 3 | breathe | could | Medio | scarcely property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | beat | past | Medio's heart | Medio's side | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against side=Location | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | Medio | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | break | would | heart | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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