Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 70

The mother had worked it herself; but the tailor who did repairs had cut them out, and a capital cutter-out he was.

Who acts: mother, tailor · What happens: work, do, cut out · To what, where: suit, repairs, tailor

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, tailor), 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	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worked	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worked	aux
4	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 worked	obj
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 worked	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 cut	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 cut	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tailor	det
10	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cut	nsubj:pass
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 did	nsubj
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tailor	acl:relcl
13	repairs	repair	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 did	obj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cut	aux
15	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 worked	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cut	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	15 cut	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 out	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 out	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 out	det
21	capital	capital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 out	amod
22	cutter	cutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 out	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 out	punct
24	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cut	compound
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 was	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 out	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 worked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	work	past · perfect	the mother	suit	mother obl	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent it=Material
2	do	past	the tailor	repairs		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent repair=Eventuality
3	cut out	past · perfect · passive		the tailor		tree rules

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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