The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 76

And if you go to Madrid, and walk through the streets till you come to the highest church, you will see Medio Pollito perched on his one leg on the steeple, with his one wing drooping at his side, and gazing sadly out of his one eye over the town.

Who acts: you, Medio, one wing · What happens: go, walk, come, see, perch, droop · To what, where: Madrid, streets, highest church, one leg, 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 (you, Medio, one wing), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	23 see	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 go	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 see	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Madrid	case
6	Madrid	Madrid	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 walk	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 walk	cc
9	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 streets	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 streets	det
12	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 walk	obl
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 come	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 come	nsubj
15	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 walk	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 church	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 church	det
18	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 church	amod
19	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 see	aux
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
24	Medio	Medio	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 perched	nsubj
25	Pollito	Pollito	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Medio	flat
26	perched	perch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 see	ccomp
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 leg	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 leg	nmod:poss
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 leg	nummod
30	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 perched	obl
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 steeple	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 steeple	det
33	steeple	steeple	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 perched	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 wing	punct
35	with	with	ADP	_	38 wing	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 wing	nmod:poss
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 wing	nummod
38	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 perched	obl
39	drooping	droop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 wing	acl
40	at	at	ADP	_	42 side	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 side	nmod:poss
42	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 drooping	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 gazing	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 gazing	cc
45	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 see	advcl
46	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	45 gazing	advmod
47	out	out	ADP	_	51 eye	case
48	of	of	ADP	_	51 eye	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 eye	nmod:poss
50	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 eye	nummod
51	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 gazing	obl
52	over	over	ADP	_	54 town	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 town	det
54	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 gazing	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go a condition, not said to happen	present	you	Madrid		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to madrid=Initial_Location
2	walk	infinitive	you not said here	the streets		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory
3	come	present	you	the highest church		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
4	see	future	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	perch	past	Medio	Medio's one leg	on the steeple; with Medio's one wing	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
6	droop	gerund	Medio's one wing not said here	Medio's side		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at side=Location
7	gaze	gerund	you not said here		over the town; out Medio's one eye; sadly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent out eye=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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