Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 26

The edges of the shirt-collar were a little frayed, so the scissors were brought to cut them smooth. "

What happens: fray, bring, cut · To what, where: edges, scissors

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 edges	det
2	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 frayed	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 collar	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 collar	det
5	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 collar	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 shirt	punct
7	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 edges	nmod
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 frayed	aux:pass
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 little	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 frayed	obl:unmarked
11	frayed	fray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 brought	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 brought	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 scissors	det
15	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 brought	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 brought	aux:pass
17	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 frayed	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 cut	mark
19	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 brought	xcomp
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cut	obj
21	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cut	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 frayed	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 frayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fray	past · passive	the edges of the shirt collar	a little obl:unmarked	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	bring	past · passive	the scissors		tree rules
3	cut	to-infinitive	scissors	smooth property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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