Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 117
On the same day, however, that she cast out Rapunzel, the enchantress in the evening fastened the braids of hair which she had cut off to the hook of the window, and when the King's son came and cried,
Who acts: enchantress, Rapunzel, son · What happens: cast out, fasten, cut off, come, cry · To what, where: braids, hair
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, son), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fastened | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 19 fastened | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 cast | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cast | nsubj |
| 10 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fastened | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 cast | compound:prt |
| 12 | Rapunzel | Rapunzel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 fastened | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 enchantress | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 enchantress | det |
| 15 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Rapunzel | appos |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 evening | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 evening | det |
| 18 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 enchantress | nmod |
| 19 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 braids | det |
| 21 | braids | braid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fastened | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 hair | case |
| 23 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 braids | nmod |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 cut | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 cut | aux |
| 27 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 hair | acl:relcl |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 27 cut | compound:prt |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 hook | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 hook | det |
| 31 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cut | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 window | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 window | det |
| 34 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hook | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 came | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 came | cc |
| 37 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 42 came | advmod |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 King | det |
| 39 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 son | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 King | case |
| 41 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 came | nsubj |
| 42 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fastened | parataxis |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 cried | cc |
| 44 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 came | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast out | past | enchantress | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fasten | past | Rapunzel | the braids of hair | day | however property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent braid=Patient | ||
| 3 | cut off | past · perfect · passive | hair | to the hook of the window | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the King's son | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | the King's son not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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