Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 46
The man in his terror consented to everything, and when the woman was brought to bed, the enchantress appeared at once, gave the child the name of Rapunzel, and took it away with her.
Who acts: man, enchantress · What happens: consent, bring, appear, give, take away, name · To what, where: woman, name, child, Rapunzel
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 consented | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 terror | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 terror | nmod:poss |
| 5 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 man | nmod |
| 6 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 everything | case |
| 8 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 consented | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brought | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 brought | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 brought | aux:pass |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 consented | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 bed | case |
| 17 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 appeared | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 enchantress | det |
| 20 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 appeared | nsubj |
| 21 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 consented | parataxis |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 once | case |
| 23 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 appeared | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gave | punct |
| 25 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 appeared | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 child | det |
| 27 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gave | obj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 name | det |
| 29 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gave | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Rapunzel | case |
| 31 | Rapunzel | Rapunzel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 name | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 took | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 took | cc |
| 34 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 consented | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 took | obj |
| 36 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 took | advmod |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 her | case |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 took | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | the man in husband's terror | to everything | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to everything=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | the woman | to bed | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 3 | appear | past | the enchantress | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location | |||||
| 4 | give | past | the enchantress not said here | the name of Rapunzel | the child | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient name=Theme | |||
| 5 | take away | past | the man in husband's terror not said here | child | with enchantress; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 6 | name | Rapunzel | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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