---
title: Oh! how wet and clammy the water felt as it went over Medio Pollito’… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh! how wet and clammy the water felt as it went over Medio Pollito’s head, making his feathers cling to his side. Who acts: water, thing, feathers. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/6/56/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Half-chick](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/6/) / 56

# The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 56

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Oh! how wet and clammy the water felt as it went over Medio Pollito’s head, making his feathers cling to his side.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** water, thing, feathers · **What happens:** feel, go, make, cling · **To what, where:** head

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (water, thing, feathers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg7277:6:56
# text = Oh! how wet and clammy the water felt as it went over Medio Pollito’s head, making his feathers cling to his side.
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	clammy	clammy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	Medio	Medio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	Pollito	Pollito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	cling	cling	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	xcomp	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | the water |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | thing |  |  | Medio's head |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over head=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cling** | present | Medio's feathers |  |  |  |  | to Medio's side | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to side=Co-Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/6/55/)
- next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/6/57/)
- ↑ back to [The Half-chick](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/6/)