Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 103
Then Rapunzel let down the braids of her hair, and the enchantress climbed up to her. "
Who acts: Rapunzel, enchantress · What happens: let down, climb up · To what, where: braids, RAPUNZEL
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rapunzel, enchantress), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 let | advmod |
| 2 | Rapunzel | Rapunzel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 let | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 braids | det |
| 6 | braids | braid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 let | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hair | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hair | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 braids | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 climbed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 climbed | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 enchantress | det |
| 13 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 climbed | nsubj |
| 14 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | parataxis |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 climbed | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 climbed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let down | past | Rapunzel | the braids of RAPUNZEL's hair | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent braid=Theme | |||
| 2 | climb up | past | the enchantress | RAPUNZEL | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to she=Destination |
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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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