Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 128

He heard a voice, and it seemed so familiar to him that he went towards it, and when he approached, Rapunzel knew him and fell on his neck and wept.

Who acts: son, it, Rapunzel · What happens: hear, seem, go, approach, know, fall · To what, where: voice, son, neck

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, it, Rapunzel), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 voice	det
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seemed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 seemed	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seemed	nsubj
8	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	parataxis
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 familiar	advmod
10	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seemed	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 familiar	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 went	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 familiar	advcl
16	towards	towards	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 knew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 knew	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 approached	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 approached	nsubj
22	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 knew	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 approached	punct
24	Rapunzel	Rapunzel	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 knew	nsubj
25	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	parataxis
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 knew	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fell	cc
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 knew	conj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 neck	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 neck	nmod:poss
31	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fell	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 wept	cc
33	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 fell	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	son	a voice			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
2	seem	past	it			familiar property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	go	past	son		voice		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards it=Initial_Location
4	approach	past	son				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	know	past	Rapunzel	son			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6	fall	past	Rapunzel not said here		son's neck		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on neck=Location
7	weep	past	Rapunzel not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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