Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 63
Then Rapunzel lost her fear, and when he asked her if she would take him for her husband, and she saw that he was young and handsome, she thought: ‘He will love me more than old Dame Gothel does’; and she said yes, and laid her hand in his.
Who acts: Rapunzel, son, old Dame · What happens: lose, ask, take, see, be, think · To what, where: fear, RAPUNZEL, son, me, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
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, son, old Dame), 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 lost | advmod |
| 2 | Rapunzel | Rapunzel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fear | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 asked | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | obj |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 take | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 husband | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 husband | nmod:poss |
| 19 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 saw | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 saw | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 young | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 young | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 young | cop |
| 27 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 saw | advcl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 handsome | cc |
| 29 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 young | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 thought | punct |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 thought | nsubj |
| 32 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | conj |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 love | punct |
| 34 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 love | punct |
| 35 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 love | nsubj |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 love | aux |
| 37 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 thought | ccomp |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 love | obj |
| 39 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 37 love | obj |
| 40 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 44 does | mark |
| 41 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 Dame | amod |
| 42 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 does | nsubj |
| 43 | Gothel | Gothel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Dame | flat |
| 44 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 more | conj |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 does | punct |
| 46 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 said | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 said | cc |
| 48 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 said | nsubj |
| 49 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | parataxis |
| 50 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 49 said | obj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 laid | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 laid | cc |
| 53 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 said | conj |
| 54 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 hand | nmod:poss |
| 55 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 laid | obj |
| 56 | in | in | ADP | _ | 57 his | case |
| 57 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 laid | obj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | Rapunzel | RAPUNZEL's fear | then | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | son | RAPUNZEL | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take a condition, not said to happen | would | RAPUNZEL | son | for RAPUNZEL's husband | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for husband=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | see | past | RAPUNZEL | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | son | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | son not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | think speech: other | past | RAPUNZEL | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | love | future | son | me | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | do | present | old Dame | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | say speech: assert | past | RAPUNZEL | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic | |||||
| 11 | lay | past | RAPUNZEL not said here | RAPUNZEL's hand | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme his=Destination | ||||
| 12 | fear | RAPUNZEL | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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