The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 25

The shirt-collar was rather frayed out at the edge, so the scissors came to cut off the threads.

Who acts: scissors · What happens: fray out, come, cut off · To what, where: shirt collar, edge, threads

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scissors), 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	4 collar	det
2	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 collar	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 shirt	punct
4	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 frayed	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 frayed	aux:pass
6	rather	rather	ADV	_	7 frayed	advmod
7	frayed	fray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 frayed	compound:prt
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 edge	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 edge	det
11	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 frayed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 scissors	det
15	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 frayed	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 cut	mark
18	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 came	xcomp
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 cut	compound:prt
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 threads	det
21	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 cut	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 frayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fray out	past · passive		the shirt collar	the edge	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	come	past	the scissors			tree rules
3	cut off	to-infinitive	the scissors not said here	the threads		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector thread=Eventuality

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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