The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 19

She also brought with her a pair of scissors to cut off the dead blooms, and a basket to put them in, so that when the sun rose next morning he might see nothing unsightly.

Who acts: princess, sun · What happens: bring, cut off, put, rise, see · To what, where: pair, dead blooms, blooms, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (princess, sun), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 brought	advmod
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pair	det
7	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 scissors	case
9	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pair	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 cut	mark
11	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 brought	advcl
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 cut	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 blooms	det
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 blooms	amod
15	blooms	bloom	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cut	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 basket	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 basket	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 basket	det
19	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 put	mark
21	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 basket	acl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	obj
23	in	in	ADV	_	21 put	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 see	punct
25	so	so	SCONJ	_	35 see	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 rose	mark
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 rose	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sun	det
29	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rose	nsubj
30	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 see	advcl
31	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 morning	amod
32	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rose	obl:unmarked
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 see	nsubj
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 see	aux
35	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 put	conj
36	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	35 see	obj
37	unsightly	unsightly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 nothing	amod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	princess	a pair of scissors		with Diamantina	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pair=Theme
2	cut off	to-infinitive	princess not said here	the dead blooms			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector bloom=Eventuality
3	put	to-infinitive	princess not said here	blooms = bloom			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
4	rise	past	the sun		morning		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	see	might	sun	nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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