Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 43

“Do you seek my hand?” said the scissors; for she was angry; and without more ado, she CUT HIM, and then he was condemned.

Who acts: you, scissors, Rag · What happens: seek, say, be, cut, condemn · To what, where: hand, iron · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, scissors, Rag), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 seek	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seek	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 seek	nsubj
4	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seek	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 seek	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 seek	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 scissors	det
11	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 angry	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 angry	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 angry	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 angry	cop
16	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	parataxis
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 CUT	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 CUT	cc
19	without	without	ADP	_	21 ado	case
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 ado	amod
21	ado	ado	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 CUT	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ado	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 CUT	nsubj
24	CUT	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
25	HIM	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 CUT	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 condemned	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 condemned	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 condemned	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 condemned	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 condemned	aux:pass
31	condemned	condemn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 CUT	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	seek in a quote	present · do-support	you	my hand			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past	the scissors				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	past	Rag			angry property	tree rules
4	cut	past	Rag	iron		without more ado	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product
5	condemn	past · passive		iron	then		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «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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