The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 60
How do you ever mean to pay for it?’
Who acts: you · What happens: mean, pay
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 do | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 mean | advmod |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pay | mark |
| 7 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 mean | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pay | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | you | ever | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pay not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | for mad | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=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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