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title: When she took the whole family out for a walk in the fields, Medio P… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When she took the whole family out for a walk in the fields, Medio Pollito would hop away by himself, and hide among the Indian corn. Who acts: mother, Medio. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 15

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When she took the whole family out for a walk in the fields, Medio Pollito would hop away by himself, and hide among the Indian corn.

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**Who acts:** mother, Medio · **What happens:** take, hop away, hide · **To what, where:** whole family, fields, Indian corn

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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 (mother, Medio), 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:pg7277:6:15
# text = When she took the whole family out for a walk in the fields, Medio Pollito would hop away by himself, and hide among the Indian corn.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	Medio	Medio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	Pollito	Pollito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	hop	hop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	among	among	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | mother | the whole family |  | the fields |  | for a walk; out *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent family=Value in field=Location |
| 2 | **hop away** | would | Medio |  |  |  |  | by Medio; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Trajectory |
| 3 | **hide** | present | Medio *not said here* |  |  | the Indian corn |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among corn=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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