Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 67
The enchantress remarked nothing of this, until once Rapunzel said to her: ‘Tell me, Dame Gothel, how it happens that you are so much heavier for me to draw up than the young king’s son--he is with me in a moment.’
Who acts: enchantress, Rapunzel, it, you, me, Dame · What happens: remark, say, tell, happen, be, draw up · To what, where: nothing, enchantress, me · 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 (enchantress, Rapunzel, it, you), 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 enchantress | det |
| 2 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 enchantress | acl |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 remarked | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 nothing | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 said | mark |
| 9 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 11 said | mark |
| 10 | Rapunzel | Rapunzel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 enchantress | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Tell | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Tell | punct |
| 16 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 Tell | iobj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Dame | punct |
| 19 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Tell | ccomp |
| 20 | Gothel | Gothel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Dame | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 happens | punct |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 happens | advmod |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 happens | nsubj |
| 24 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 Tell | conj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 heavier | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 heavier | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 heavier | cop |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 much | advmod |
| 29 | much | much | ADV | _ | 30 heavier | advmod |
| 30 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 happens | parataxis |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 draw | mark |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 draw | nsubj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 draw | mark |
| 34 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 heavier | advcl |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 draw | compound:prt |
| 36 | than | than | ADP | _ | 41 son | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 king | det |
| 38 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 king | amod |
| 39 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 son | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 39 king | case |
| 41 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 draw | obl |
| 42 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 46 me | punct |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 me | nsubj |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 me | cop |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 me | case |
| 46 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 Tell | iobj |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 moment | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 moment | det |
| 49 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Tell | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 enchantress | punct |
| 51 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 enchantress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remark speech: assert | participle | the enchantress not said here | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Rapunzel | enchantress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | Rapunzel not said here | me | moment | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient i=Topic | |||
| 4 | happen | present | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | present | you | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | draw up | to-infinitive | me | than the young king's son | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is | present | Dame | with me | 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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