The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 85

‘That thing up there is to teach me to run?’

Who acts: thing · What happens: be, run

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 (thing), 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	_	8 teach	punct
2	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 thing	det
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 teach	nsubj
4	up	up	ADV	_	6 is	advmod
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 is	expl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 teach	cop
7	to	to	PART	_	8 teach	mark
8	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 teach	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 run	mark
11	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 teach	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 teach	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 teach	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that thing					teach property	tree rules
2	run	to-infinitive	that thing not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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