The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 53

It’s a scissors, and whatever stuff you cut with it will be turned into silk.

Who acts: you · What happens: cut, turn · To what, where: stuff, silk

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ’s	nsubj
2	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 scissors	det
4	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ’s	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 turned	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 turned	cc
7	whatever	whatever	DET	PronType=Int	8 stuff	det
8	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 turned	nsubj:pass
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 cut	nsubj
10	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stuff	acl:relcl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cut	obl
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 turned	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 turned	aux:pass
15	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 ’s	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	17 silk	case
17	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 turned	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ’s	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	present	you	whatever stuff not said here				with ‘	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient with it=Instrument
2	turn	future · passive		whatever stuff		silk			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into silk=Trajectory

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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