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title: Now though Medio Pollito was such an odd, helpless-looking little th… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now though Medio Pollito was such an odd, helpless-looking little thing, his mother soon found that he was not at all willing to remain under her wing and protection. Who acts: Medio, mother. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 11

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Now though Medio Pollito was such an odd, helpless-looking little thing, his mother soon found that he was not at all willing to remain under her wing and protection.

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**Who acts:** Medio, mother · **What happens:** look, be, find, not be, remain · **To what, where:** odd looking little thing, all, wing

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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, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:6:11
# text = Now though Medio Pollito was such an odd, helpless-looking little thing, his mother soon found that he was not at all willing to remain under her wing and protection.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
3	Medio	Medio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	Pollito	Pollito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
6	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	14	det:predet	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
8	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	helpless	helpless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	obl	_	_
26	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	ccomp	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	under	under	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Medio | such odd looking little thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | past | Medio's mother |  |  |  | now | soon *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | Medio |  |  | all |  | willing *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **remain** | to-infinitive | Medio *not said here* |  |  | mother's wing and protection |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under wing=Location |

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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.

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**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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