--- title: ‘To Madrid, Medio Pollito!’ exclaimed his mother; ‘why, you silly ch… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘To Madrid, Medio Pollito!’ exclaimed his mother; ‘why, you silly chick, it would be a long journey for a grown-up cock, and a poor little thing like you would be tired out before you had gone half the distance. Who acts: Madrid, you, manner, poor little thing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madrid, you, manner, poor little thing), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7277:6:22 # text = ‘To Madrid, Medio Pollito!’ exclaimed his mother; ‘why, you silly chick, it would be a long journey for a grown-up cock, and a poor little thing like you would be tired out before you had gone half the distance. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 To to ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Madrid Madrid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 Medio Medio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Pollito Pollito PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 13 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 chick chick NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 21 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 28 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 31 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 38 like like ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nmod _ _ 40 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 cop _ _ 42 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 43 out out ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 before before SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 45 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 46 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 47 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 42 advcl _ _ 48 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 50 det:predet _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Madrid | Madrid's mother | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic | | 2 | **chick** | | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | would | manner | a long journey | | | | for a grown cock | tree rules | | 4 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | would | a poor little thing like you | | | | | out, tired *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | past · perfect | you | half distance | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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. - ← previous: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/6/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/6/23/) - ↑ back to [The Half-chick](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/6/)