Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 58
Then Rapunzel let down the braids of her hair, and the enchantress climbed up to her.
Who acts: Rapunzel, enchantress · What happens: let down, climb up · To what, where: braids, 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 (Rapunzel, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 let | advmod |
| 2 | Rapunzel | Rapunzel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 let | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 braids | det |
| 6 | braids | braid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 let | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hair | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hair | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 braids | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 climbed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 climbed | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 enchantress | det |
| 13 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 climbed | nsubj |
| 14 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | parataxis |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 climbed | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 climbed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let down | past | Rapunzel | the braids of RAPUNZEL's hair | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent braid=Theme | |||
| 2 | climb up | past | the enchantress | RAPUNZEL | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to she=Destination |
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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