Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 47
Rapunzel grew into the most beautiful child under 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: sun., RAPUNZEL, tower, forest, stairs, little window
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 (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 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 sun. | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun. | det |
| 10 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | obl |
| 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 | the sun. | into the beautiful child | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under sun.=Location | |||
| 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: «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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