The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 35

He wants to marry me?’ said the scissors, and she was so angry that she gave the collar a sharp snip, so that it had to be cast aside as good for nothing.

Who acts: man, duchess, snip · What happens: want, marry, say, be, give, have · To what, where: me, scissors, collar · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, duchess, snip), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 marry	mark
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 marry	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wants	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wants	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 scissors	det
10	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 angry	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 angry	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 angry	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 angry	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 angry	advmod
16	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 gave	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gave	nsubj
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 angry	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 collar	det
21	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 snip	det
23	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 snip	amod
24	snip	snip	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
26	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	29 had	mark
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 so	fixed
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 gave	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	32 cast	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 cast	aux:pass
32	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 had	xcomp
33	aside	aside	ADV	_	35 good	advmod
34	as	as	ADV	_	35 good	advmod
35	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cast	xcomp
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 nothing	case
37	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	35 good	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wants	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	man			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	me		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past		the scissors		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent scissors=Topic
4	is	past	duchess		angry property	tree rules
5	give	past	duchess	the collar		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent collar=Recipient snip=Theme
6	have	past	snip			tree rules
7	cast	to-infinitive · passive	snip not said here		good property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»

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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