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title: Medio Pollito,’ cried the fire, in a weak, wavering voice as the hal… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Medio Pollito,’ cried the fire, in a weak, wavering voice as the half-chick approached, ‘in a few minutes I shall go quite out, unless you put some sticks and dry leaves upon me. Who acts: Medio, I, you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick, with its dependency tree an
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 39

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Medio Pollito,’ cried the fire, in a weak, wavering voice as the half-chick approached, ‘in a few minutes I shall go quite out, unless you put some sticks and dry leaves upon me.

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**Who acts:** Medio, I, you · **What happens:** cry, waver, approach, go, put · **To what, where:** fire, voice, half chick, sticks

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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, I, you), 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:pg7277:6:39
# text = Medio Pollito,’ cried the fire, in a weak, wavering voice as the half-chick approached, ‘in a few minutes I shall go quite out, unless you put some sticks and dry leaves upon me.
1	Medio	Medio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Pollito	Pollito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	wavering	waver	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	chick	chick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	approached	approach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	‘	‘	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
30	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	out	out	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	put	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
36	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
37	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
41	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | the fire |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Topic |
| 2 | **waver** | gerund | Medio *not said here* | voice |  |  |  | as the half chick | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location voice=Theme |
| 3 | **approach** | participle |  | the half chick *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | shall | I |  |  |  | minute | out *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **put** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | some sticks and dry leaves |  |  |  | upon me | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme upon i=Destination |

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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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