Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 108
Then Rapunzel lost her fear, and when he asked her if she would take him for a husband, and she saw that he was young and handsome, she thought, "He will love me more than old Dame Gothel does;" and she said yes, and laid her hand in his.
Who acts: Rapunzel, son, old Dame Gothel · What happens: lose, ask, take, see, be, think · To what, where: fear, RAPUNZEL, son, hand · 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 (Rapunzel, son, old Dame Gothel), 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 lost | advmod |
| 2 | Rapunzel | Rapunzel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fear | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 asked | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | obj |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 take | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 husband | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 husband | det |
| 19 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 saw | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 saw | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 young | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 young | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 young | cop |
| 27 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 saw | advcl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 handsome | cc |
| 29 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 young | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 thought | punct |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 thought | nsubj |
| 32 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 love | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 love | punct |
| 35 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 love | nsubj |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 love | aux |
| 37 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 thought | ccomp |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 love | obj |
| 39 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 37 love | obj |
| 40 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 44 does | mark |
| 41 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 Gothel | amod |
| 42 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Gothel | compound |
| 43 | Gothel | Gothel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 does | nsubj |
| 44 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 more | advcl |
| 45 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 love | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 love | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 said | cc |
| 48 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 said | nsubj |
| 49 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 thought | conj |
| 50 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 49 said | obj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 laid | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 laid | cc |
| 53 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | conj |
| 54 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 hand | nmod:poss |
| 55 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 laid | obj |
| 56 | in | in | ADP | _ | 57 his | case |
| 57 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 laid | obj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | Rapunzel | RAPUNZEL's fear | then | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | son | RAPUNZEL | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take a condition, not said to happen | would | RAPUNZEL | son | for a husband | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for husband=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | see | past | RAPUNZEL | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | son | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | son not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | think speech: other | past | RAPUNZEL | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | love in a quote | future | son | RAPUNZEL | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | do in a quote | present | old Dame Gothel | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | say speech: assert | past | RAPUNZEL | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic | |||||
| 11 | lay | past | Rapunzel not said here | RAPUNZEL's hand | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme his=Destination | ||||
| 12 | fear | RAPUNZEL | nom fear «feeling 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: «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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