The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 93

That thing that glares so, and then disappears, the sun, as he calls it, is not my friend.

Who acts: thing, man · What happens: glare, disappear, call, not be · To what, where: sun, idea, friend · 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, man), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 thing	det
2	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 friend	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 glares	nsubj
4	glares	glare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 thing	acl:relcl
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 glares	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 disappears	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 disappears	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 disappears	advmod
9	disappears	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 glares	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sun	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun	det
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disappears	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 calls	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 calls	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 calls	nsubj
16	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 disappears	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 calls	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 thing	punct
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 friend	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 friend	advmod
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 friend	nmod:poss
22	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 friend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	glare	present	that thing			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	disappear	present		the sun	then	tree rules
3	call	present	man	idea		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
4	not is a	present	that thing	my friend		tree rules

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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