More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 82

There came by a pedlar, whose name was Stout, He cut her petticoats round about; He cut her petticoats up to the knees, Which made the old woman to shiver and freeze.

Who acts: name, Stout, knees · What happens: come, be, cut, cut up, make, shiver · To what, where: Stout, petticoats, old woman

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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 (name, Stout, knees), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 came	expl
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 pedlar	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pedlar	det
5	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Stout	punct
7	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	8 name	nmod:poss
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Stout	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Stout	cop
10	Stout	Stout	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pedlar	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cut	punct
12	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cut	nsubj
13	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 petticoats	nmod:poss
15	petticoats	petticoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cut	obj
16	round	round	ADV	_	13 cut	advmod
17	about	about	ADV	_	13 cut	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 cut	punct
19	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 cut	nsubj
20	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 petticoats	nmod:poss
22	petticoats	petticoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cut	obj
23	up	up	ADV	_	20 cut	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 knees	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 knees	det
26	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cut	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 made	punct
28	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 made	nsubj
29	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 knees	acl:relcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 woman	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 woman	amod
32	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 made	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 shiver	mark
34	shiver	shiver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 woman	acl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 freeze	cc
36	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 shiver	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past			there	by a pedlar and Stout	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by pedlar=Location
2	is a	past	Stout's name	Stout			tree rules
3	cut	past	Stout	woman's petticoats		about, round property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petticoat=Product
4	cut up	past	Stout	woman's petticoats		to the knees result	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent petticoat=Patient to knee=Result
5	make	past	the knees	the old woman			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset woman=Product
6	shiver	to-infinitive	the knees not said here	the old woman not said here			vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	freeze	infinitive	the knees not said here				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	name		Stout				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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