Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 92
Rapunzel grew into the most beautiful child beneath the sun. When she was twelve years old, the enchantress shut her into a tower, which lay in a forest, and had neither stairs nor door, but quite at the top was a little window.
Who acts: Rapunzel, enchantress, tower, top · What happens: grow, be, shut, lie, have · To what, where: RAPUNZEL, tower, forest, stairs, little window
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, enchantress, tower, top), 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 | Rapunzel | Rapunzel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 child | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 child | amod |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | obl |
| 8 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 10 sun. | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun. | det |
| 10 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 child | nmod |
| 11 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 old | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 old | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 old | cop |
| 14 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 old | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 grew | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shut | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 enchantress | det |
| 19 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shut | nsubj |
| 20 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grew | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 shut | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 tower | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tower | det |
| 24 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shut | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lay | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 lay | nsubj |
| 27 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 tower | acl:relcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 forest | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 forest | det |
| 30 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lay | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 had | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 had | cc |
| 33 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grew | conj |
| 34 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 35 stairs | det |
| 35 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 had | obj |
| 36 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 37 door | cc |
| 37 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 stairs | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 window | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 47 window | cc |
| 40 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 43 top | advmod |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 top | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 top | det |
| 43 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 window | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 window | cop |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 window | det |
| 46 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 window | amod |
| 47 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 had | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Rapunzel | into the beautiful child beneath the sun. result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into child=Result | ||||
| 2 | is | past | RAPUNZEL | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | shut | past | the enchantress | RAPUNZEL | a tower | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 4 | lie | past | a tower | a forest | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location | ||||
| 5 | have | past | Rapunzel not said here | neither stairs nor door | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stair=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | the top | a little window | 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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