The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 73

‘There it is again on the other side!’ said the Snow-man, by which he meant the sun was appearing again.

Who acts: moon, man, sun · What happens: be, say, mean, appear · To what, where: Snow man, other side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, man, sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 is	expl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 is	nsubj
4	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 is	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 side	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 side	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 side	amod
9	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 side	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 side	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
14	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 man	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Snow	punct
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 meant	punct
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 meant	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 meant	nsubj
21	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sun	det
23	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 appearing	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 appearing	aux
25	appearing	appear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 meant	ccomp
26	again	again	ADV	_	25 appearing	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	present	moon		there	again	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the Snow man	the other side		tree rules
3	mean	past	man				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	appear	past · progressive	the sun			again	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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