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title: ‘Help you, indeed!’ exclaimed Medio Pollito, tossing his head, and s… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Help you, indeed!’ exclaimed Medio Pollito, tossing his head, and shaking the few feathers in his tail. 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 32

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‘Help you, indeed!’ exclaimed Medio Pollito, tossing his head, and shaking the few feathers in his tail.

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**What happens:** help, exclaim, toss, shake · **To what, where:** you, Medio, head, few feathers, tail · **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: 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:pg7277:6:32
# text = ‘Help you, indeed!’ exclaimed Medio Pollito, tossing his head, and shaking the few feathers in his tail.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Medio	Medio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	Pollito	Pollito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	tossing	toss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | infinitive |  |  | you |  |  | indeed *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past |  | Medio |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **toss** | gerund |  | Medio's head |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 4 | **shake** | gerund |  | the few feathers |  | Medio's tail |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent feather=Theme in tail=Trajectory |

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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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