Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 50
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 ells 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 «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, 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 ells | nummod |
| 45 | ells | ell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 down | obl:unmarked |
| 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 | to whom | where | 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: «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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