Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 107
At first Rapunzel was terribly frightened when a man such as her eyes had never yet beheld came to her; but the King's son began to talk to her quite like a friend, and told her that his heart had been so stirred that it had let him have no rest, and he had been forced to see her.
Who acts: son, heart · What happens: frighten, not behold, come, begin, talk, tell · To what, where: Rapunzel, man, son, rest · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (son, heart), 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 | At | at | SCONJ | _ | 6 frightened | mark |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 frightened | advmod |
| 3 | Rapunzel | Rapunzel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | aux:pass |
| 5 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 6 frightened | advmod |
| 6 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 came | advcl |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 beheld | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beheld | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 13 eyes | case |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 such | fixed |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 man | nmod |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 beheld | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 beheld | advmod |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 17 beheld | advmod |
| 17 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 frightened | advcl |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 began | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 began | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 King | det |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 son | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 King | case |
| 26 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 began | nsubj |
| 27 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 talk | mark |
| 29 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 began | xcomp |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 talk | obl |
| 32 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 35 friend | advmod |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 35 friend | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 friend | det |
| 35 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 talk | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 told | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 told | cc |
| 38 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | conj |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 told | iobj |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 stirred | mark |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 heart | nmod:poss |
| 42 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 stirred | nsubj:outer |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 stirred | aux |
| 44 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 46 stirred | cop |
| 45 | so | so | ADV | _ | 46 stirred | advmod |
| 46 | stirred | stir | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 told | advcl |
| 47 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 49 had | mark |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 had | nsubj |
| 49 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 stirred | ccomp |
| 50 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 had | xcomp |
| 51 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 let | obj |
| 52 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 let | xcomp |
| 53 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 54 rest | det |
| 54 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 have | obj |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 forced | punct |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 forced | cc |
| 57 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 60 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 58 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 60 forced | aux |
| 59 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 60 forced | aux:pass |
| 60 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 came | parataxis |
| 61 | to | to | PART | _ | 62 see | mark |
| 62 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 60 forced | xcomp |
| 63 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 see | obj |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | Rapunzel | first, terribly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not behold | past · perfect · passive | a man such RAPUNZEL's eyes | yet | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | past | RAPUNZEL | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | begin | past | the King's son | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | talk | to-infinitive | the King's son not said here | RAPUNZEL | like a friend | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent | |||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | past | RAPUNZEL | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | is | past · perfect | son's heart | stir property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | have | past | heart | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | let | infinitive | heart not said here | son | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | have | infinitive | son not said here | no rest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient | ||||
| 11 | force | past · perfect · passive | son | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 12 | see | to-infinitive | son not said here | RAPUNZEL | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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