--- title: The thing you see there is the moon; the other thing you saw going d… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg5615:5:90 # text = 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. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:outer _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 6 expl _ _ 6 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 csubj _ _ 16 down down ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sun. sun. NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 23 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 up up ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 again again ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 28 tomorrow tomorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ _ 34 teach teach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 iobj _ _ 36 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 39 away away ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 down down ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 gutter gutter NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/89/) - next →: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/91/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/)