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title: Medio Pollito,’ it cried, as the half-chick hopped along its banks,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Medio Pollito,’ it cried, as the half-chick hopped along its banks, ‘do come and help me by clearing away these weeds.’ Who acts: 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 31

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Medio Pollito,’ it cried, as the half-chick hopped along its banks, ‘do come and help me by clearing away these weeds.’

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**Who acts:** Medio · **What happens:** cry, hop, come, help, clear away · **To what, where:** half chick, banks, me, weeds

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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), 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:pg7277:6:31
# text = Medio Pollito,’ it cried, as the half-chick hopped along its banks, ‘do come and help me by clearing away these weeds.’
1	Medio	Medio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Pollito	Pollito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	chick	chick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	hopped	hop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	along	along	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	clearing	clear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	weeds	weed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Medio |  |  |  |  | as the half chick | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hop** | participle |  | the half chick *not said here* |  | stream's banks |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bank=Trajectory |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive · do-support | Medio *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **help** | infinitive | Medio *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **clear away** | gerund | Medio *not said here* | this weeds |  |  |  | away *property* | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent weed=Source |

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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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