The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 90
The thing you see there is the moon; the other thing you saw going down the other side was the sun. He will come up again tomorrow morning, and will soon teach you how to run away down the gutter.
Who acts: thing, moon, other thing, going, dog · What happens: see, be, go down, come up, teach, run away · To what, where: other side, sun., you, gutter · 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 (thing, moon, other thing, going), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 thing | det |
| 2 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 is | expl |
| 6 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 moon | det |
| 8 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thing | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thing | amod |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | conj |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 sun. | csubj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 side | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 side | amod |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 going | obl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sun. | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sun. | det |
| 22 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 23 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 come | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 come | aux |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sun. | acl:relcl |
| 26 | up | up | ADV | _ | 25 come | advmod |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 come | advmod |
| 28 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 morning | compound |
| 29 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 come | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 teach | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 teach | cc |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 teach | aux |
| 33 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 teach | advmod |
| 34 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 saw | conj |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 teach | iobj |
| 36 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 run | advmod |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 run | mark |
| 38 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 teach | xcomp |
| 39 | away | away | ADV | _ | 38 run | advmod |
| 40 | down | down | ADP | _ | 42 gutter | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 gutter | det |
| 42 | gutter | gutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 run | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | the thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | present | the moon | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | the other thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | go down | gerund | the other side | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient side=Extent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | going | the sun. | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | come up | future | dog | the sun. not said here | again; morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sun.=Theme | |||
| 7 | teach speech: other | future | the other thing not said here | you | soon property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 8 | run away | to-infinitive | the other thing not said here | the gutter | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down gutter=Trajectory |
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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