Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 112
The enchantress remarked nothing of this, until once Rapunzel said to her, "Tell me, Dame Gothel, how it happens that you are so much heavier for me to draw up than the young King's son--he is with me in a moment." "
Who acts: enchantress, Rapunzel, it, horse · What happens: remark, say, tell, happen, be, draw up · To what, where: nothing, enchantress, Dame Gothel, Rapunzel · 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 (enchantress, Rapunzel, it, horse), 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 enchantress | det |
| 2 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 enchantress | acl |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 remarked | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 nothing | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 said | mark |
| 9 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 11 said | mark |
| 10 | Rapunzel | Rapunzel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 enchantress | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Tell | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Tell | punct |
| 16 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 Tell | iobj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Gothel | punct |
| 19 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Gothel | compound |
| 20 | Gothel | Gothel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Tell | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 happens | punct |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 happens | advmod |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 happens | nsubj |
| 24 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 Tell | conj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 heavier | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 heavier | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 heavier | cop |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 much | advmod |
| 29 | much | much | ADV | _ | 30 heavier | advmod |
| 30 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 happens | parataxis |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 draw | mark |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 draw | nsubj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 draw | mark |
| 34 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 heavier | advcl |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 draw | compound:prt |
| 36 | than | than | ADP | _ | 41 son | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 King | det |
| 38 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 King | amod |
| 39 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 son | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 King | case |
| 41 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 draw | obl |
| 42 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 46 me | punct |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 me | nsubj |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 me | cop |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 me | case |
| 46 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 happens | obl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 moment | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 moment | det |
| 49 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 me | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 Tell | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Tell | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 enchantress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remark speech: assert | participle | the enchantress not said here | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Rapunzel | enchantress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Dame Gothel | Rapunzel | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | happen in a quote | present | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | enchantress | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | draw up in a quote | to-infinitive | Rapunzel | than the young King's son | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | horse | moment | with Rapunzel | 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: «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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