Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 95

Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold, and when she heard the voice of the enchantress she unfastened her braided tresses, wound them round one of the hooks of the window above, and then the hair fell twenty yards down, and the enchantress climbed up by it.

Who acts: Rapunzel, voice, hair, enchantress · What happens: magnificent, spin, hear, unfasten, braid, wound · To what, where: long hair, tresses

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, voice, hair, enchantress), 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	3 magnificent	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 magnificent	aux
3	magnificent	magnificent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hair	amod
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 magnificent	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fine	punct
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hair	amod
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 gold	case
9	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 gold	amod
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fine	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 heard	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 heard	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 heard	nsubj
15	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 magnificent	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 voice	det
17	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 unfastened	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 enchantress	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 enchantress	det
20	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 voice	nmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 unfastened	nsubj
22	unfastened	unfasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 braided	nsubj
24	braided	braid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 unfastened	ccomp
25	tresses	tress	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 braided	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wound	punct
27	wound	wound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 unfastened	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wound	obj
29	round	round	ADP	_	30 one	case
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 wound	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 hooks	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hooks	det
33	hooks	hook	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 one	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 window	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 window	det
36	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hooks	nmod
37	above	above	ADV	_	36 window	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 fell	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 fell	cc
40	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 fell	advmod
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 hair	det
42	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 fell	nsubj
43	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	conj
44	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 yards	nummod
45	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 down	obl
46	down	down	ADV	_	43 fell	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 climbed	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 climbed	cc
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 enchantress	det
50	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 climbed	nsubj
51	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	parataxis
52	up	up	ADP	_	51 climbed	compound:prt
53	by	by	ADP	_	54 it	case
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 climbed	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 magnificent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	magnificent	past · perfect	Rapunzel	long hair			tree rules
2	spin	participle					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	past	RAPUNZEL				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	unfasten	past	the voice of the enchantress				tree rules
5	braid	past	RAPUNZEL	tresses			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tress=Patient
6	wound	infinitive	the voice of the enchantress not said here	tresses = tress		round one of the hooks of the window	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
7	fall	past	the hair		then	down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	climb up	past	the enchantress			by hair	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by it=Trajectory

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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