Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 73
On the same day that she cast out Rapunzel, however, the enchantress fastened the braids of hair, which she had cut off, to the hook of the window, and when the king’s son came and cried:
Who acts: woman, enchantress, son · What happens: cast out, fasten, cut off, come, cry · To what, where: Rapunzel, braids
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 (woman, enchantress, son), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fastened | obl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 cast | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cast | nsubj |
| 7 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 day | acl:relcl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 cast | compound:prt |
| 9 | Rapunzel | Rapunzel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cast | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 11 | however | however | ADV | _ | 15 fastened | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 however | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 enchantress | det |
| 14 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fastened | nsubj |
| 15 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 braids | det |
| 17 | braids | braid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fastened | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hair | case |
| 19 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 braids | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cut | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 cut | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 cut | aux |
| 24 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 braids | acl |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 cut | compound:prt |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hook | punct |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 hook | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hook | det |
| 29 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cut | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 window | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 window | det |
| 32 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hook | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 came | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 came | cc |
| 35 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 came | advmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 king | det |
| 37 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 son | nmod:poss |
| 38 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 37 king | case |
| 39 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 came | nsubj |
| 40 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fastened | conj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 cried | cc |
| 42 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 came | conj |
| 43 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast out | past | woman | Rapunzel | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rapunzel=Product | ||||
| 2 | fasten | past | the enchantress | the braids of hair | day | however property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent braid=Patient | ||
| 3 | cut off | past · perfect · passive | the braids of hair | to the hook of the window | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the king's son | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | the king's son not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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