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The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 74

And he swirled Medio Pollito over the roofs of the houses till they reached the highest church in the town, and there he left him fastened to the top of the steeple.

Who acts: Medio, house, road · What happens: swirl, reach, leave, fasten · To what, where: Medio, roofs, highest church, town, road

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, house, road), 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

ccnsubjobjflatcasedetoblcasedetnmodmarknsubjadvcldetamodobjcasedetnmodpunctccexplnsubjconjobjxcompcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctrootAndCCONJhePRONswirledVERBMedioPROPNPollitoPROPNoverADPtheDETroofsNOUNofADPtheDEThousesNOUNtillSCONJtheyPRONreachedVERBtheDEThighestADJchurchNOUNinADPtheDETtownNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtherePRONhePRONleftVERBhimPRONfastenedVERBtoADPtheDETtopNOUNofADPtheDETsteepleNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_3 swirledcc
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 swirlednsubj
3swirledswirlVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4MedioMedioPROPNNumber=Sing3 swirledobj
5PollitoPollitoPROPNNumber=Sing4 Medioflat
6overoverADP_8 roofscase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 roofsdet
8roofsroofNOUNNumber=Plur3 swirledobl
9ofofADP_11 housescase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 housesdet
11houseshouseNOUNNumber=Plur8 roofsnmod
12tilltillSCONJ_14 reachedmark
13theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs14 reachednsubj
14reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 swirledadvcl
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 churchdet
16highesthighADJDegree=Sup17 churchamod
17churchchurchNOUNNumber=Sing14 reachedobj
18ininADP_20 towncase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 towndet
20towntownNOUNNumber=Sing17 churchnmod
21,,PUNCT_25 leftpunct
22andandCCONJ_25 leftcc
23theretherePRONPronType=Dem25 leftexpl
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 leftnsubj
25leftleaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 swirledconj
26himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 leftobj
27fastenedfastenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass25 leftxcomp
28totoADP_30 topcase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 topdet
30toptopNOUNNumber=Sing27 fastenedobl
31ofofADP_33 steeplecase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 steepledet
33steeplesteepleNOUNNumber=Sing30 topnmod
34..PUNCT_3 swirledpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1swirlpastMedioMediothe roofs of the housesvn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent medio=Theme over roof=Destination
2reachpasthousethe highest churchthe townvn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent church=Theme
3leavepastMedioroadtheretree rules
4fastenparticipleroad not said hereto the top of the steeplevn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to top=Co-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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