The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 66

Nothing remained but to produce the scissors and cut the beard, by which a small part of it was sacrificed.

Who acts: Nothing · What happens: remain, produce, cut, sacrifice · To what, where: scissors, beard, small part

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing), 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	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 remained	nsubj
2	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 produce	cc
4	to	to	PART	_	5 produce	mark
5	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 remained	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 scissors	det
7	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 produce	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cut	cc
9	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 produce	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beard	det
11	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sacrificed	punct
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 sacrificed	obl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 part	det
16	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 part	amod
17	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sacrificed	nsubj:pass
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 part	nmod
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sacrificed	aux:pass
21	sacrificed	sacrifice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 produce	parataxis
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	remain	past	Nothing		tree rules
2	produce	to-infinitive	Nothing not said here	the scissors	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scissors=Result
3	cut	present	Nothing not said here	the beard	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset beard=Product
4	sacrifice	past · passive		a small part of beard	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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