The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 116
The man in his terror agreed to everything she asked, and as soon as the child was born the Witch appeared, and having given it the name of Rapunzel, which is the same as rampion, she carried it off with her.
Who acts: man, wife, name · What happens: agree, ask, bear, appear, give, be · To what, where: child, terror, name, Rapunzel
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, wife, name), 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 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 terror | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 terror | nmod:poss |
| 5 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 man | nmod |
| 6 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 everything | case |
| 8 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 agreed | obl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 everything | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 appeared | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 appeared | cc |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 soon | advmod |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 appeared | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 born | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 child | det |
| 17 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 born | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 born | aux:pass |
| 19 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 soon | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Witch | det |
| 21 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 born | obj |
| 22 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 agreed | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 given | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 given | cc |
| 25 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 given | aux |
| 26 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 appeared | advcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 given | obj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 name | det |
| 29 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 given | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Rapunzel | case |
| 31 | Rapunzel | Rapunzel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 name | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 same | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 same | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 same | cop |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 same | det |
| 36 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 name | conj |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 rampion | case |
| 38 | rampion | rampion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 same | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 carried | punct |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 carried | nsubj |
| 41 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 given | conj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 carried | obj |
| 43 | off | off | ADP | _ | 41 carried | compound:prt |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 her | case |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 carried | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the man in marriage's terror | to everything | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | wife | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bear | past · passive | the child | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary witch=Patient | |||||
| 4 | appear | past | the man in marriage's terror not said here | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give | gerund · perfect | the man in marriage's terror not said here | terror | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient name=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | present | the name of Rapunzel | as rampion; same property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | carry off | past | wife | name | with mother | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 8 | name | Rapunzel | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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