Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 32

"What! is he going to propose to me?" said the scissors, and she became so angry that she cut too sharply into the shirt collar, and it was obliged to be thrown by as useless.

Who acts: scissors, human · What happens: go, propose, say, become, cut, oblige · To what, where: scissors, estate · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (scissors, human), 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	_	6 going	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 going	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 going	nsubj
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 propose	mark
8	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 propose	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 scissors	det
15	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 became	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 became	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 became	nsubj
19	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	parataxis
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 angry	advmod
21	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 became	xcomp
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 cut	mark
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	21 angry	advcl
25	too	too	ADV	_	26 sharply	advmod
26	sharply	sharply	ADV	_	24 cut	advmod
27	into	into	ADP	_	30 collar	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 collar	det
29	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 collar	compound
30	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cut	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 obliged	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 obliged	cc
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 obliged	nsubj:pass
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 obliged	aux:pass
35	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 became	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	38 thrown	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 thrown	aux:pass
38	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 obliged	xcomp
39	by	by	ADP	_	38 thrown	obl
40	as	as	ADP	_	41 useless	case
41	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 thrown	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · progressive					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	propose in a quote	to-infinitive			the scissors = scissors		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient
3	say speech: ask	past	the scissors				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	become	past	human			angry property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	cut	past	human			into the shirt collar; sharply property	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into collar=Patient
6	oblige	past · passive		estate			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
7	throw by	to-infinitive · passive				as useless	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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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