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title: And if you go to Madrid, and walk through the streets till you come… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And if you go to Madrid, and walk through the streets till you come to the highest church, you will see Medio Pollito perched on his one leg on the steeple, with his one wing drooping at his side, and gazing sadly out of his one eye over the town. Who acts: you, Medio, one wing. A sentence of «The G
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 76

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And if you go to Madrid, and walk through the streets till you come to the highest church, you will see Medio Pollito perched on his one leg on the steeple, with his one wing drooping at his side, and gazing sadly out of his one eye over the town.

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**Who acts:** you, Medio, one wing · **What happens:** go, walk, come, see, perch, droop · **To what, where:** Madrid, streets, highest church, one leg, side · **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: who acts (you, Medio, one wing), 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:pg7277:6:76
# text = And if you go to Madrid, and walk through the streets till you come to the highest church, you will see Medio Pollito perched on his one leg on the steeple, with his one wing drooping at his side, and gazing sadly out of his one eye over the town.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Madrid	Madrid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
24	Medio	Medio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	Pollito	Pollito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
26	perched	perch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	steeple	steeple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
39	drooping	droop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	acl	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
46	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	out	out	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
50	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	nummod	_	_
51	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
52	over	over	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  | Madrid |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to madrid=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **walk** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the streets |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory |
| 3 | **come** | present | you |  |  | the highest church |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **see** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **perch** | past | Medio |  |  | Medio's one leg |  | on the steeple; with Medio's one wing | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location |
| 6 | **droop** | gerund | Medio's one wing *not said here* |  |  | Medio's side |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at side=Location |
| 7 | **gaze** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over the town; out Medio's one eye; sadly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent out eye=Theme |

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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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