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title: On his return he strutted up to his mother with the peculiar little… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On his return he strutted up to his mother with the peculiar little hop and kick which was his way of walking, and cocking his one eye at her in a very bold way he said: Who acts: Medio, peculiar little hop. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick, with its dependency tre
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 19

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On his return he strutted up to his mother with the peculiar little hop and kick which was his way of walking, and cocking his one eye at her in a very bold way he said:

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**Who acts:** Medio, peculiar little hop · **What happens:** strut up, be, cock, say, return · **To what, where:** return, way, one eye, bold way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, peculiar little hop), 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:pg7277:6:19
# text = On his return he strutted up to his mother with the peculiar little hop and kick which was his way of walking, and cocking his one eye at her in a very bold way he said:
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	strutted	strut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	peculiar	peculiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hop	hop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	kick	kick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	walking	walking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	cocking	cock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	very	very	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strut up** | past | Medio |  |  | Medio's return |  | to Medio's mother with the peculiar little hop and kick | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on return=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the peculiar little hop and kick | Medio's way |  |  |  | of walking | tree rules |
| 3 | **cock** | gerund | Medio *not said here* | Medio's one eye |  |  |  | at mother; in a bold way | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Patient in way=Topic |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Medio | a bold way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 5 | **return** |  | Medio |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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