The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 59
We must find some way of paying her back in her own coin!'
Who acts: We, way, stepmother · What happens: find, pay, coin · To what, where: way, back, own coin
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, way, stepmother), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | aux |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 find | obj |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 paying | mark |
| 7 | paying | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 way | acl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 back | nmod:poss |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 paying | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 coin | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 coin | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 coin | amod |
| 13 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 paying | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | must | We | some way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pay | gerund | some way not said here | stepmother's back | stepmother's own coin | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Asset | |||
| 3 | coin | stepmother | nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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