Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 33

The collar was a little jagged at the edge, and so came the long scissors to cut off the jagged part.

Who acts: collar · What happens: be, come, cut off · To what, where: edge, long scissors, jagged part

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The False Collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (collar), 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 collar	det
2	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jagged	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 jagged	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 jagged	obl:unmarked
6	jagged	jagged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 edge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 edge	det
9	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jagged	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 jagged	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 scissors	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 scissors	amod
16	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 came	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 cut	mark
18	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 came	advcl
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 cut	compound:prt
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 part	det
21	jagged	jagged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 part	amod
22	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cut	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 jagged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the collar		the edge	a little obl:unmarked; jagged property	tree rules
2	come	past		the long scissors			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location scissors=Theme
3	cut off	to-infinitive		the jagged part			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector part=Eventuality

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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