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title: She also brought with her a pair of scissors to cut off the dead blo… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 19

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3027:37:19
# text = 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.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	blooms	bloom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
25	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
31	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
36	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	35	obj	_	_
37	unsightly	unsightly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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.

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**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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