The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 119
‘Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your golden hair,’
Who acts: Rapunzel · What happens: let down · To what, where: golden hair
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 (Rapunzel), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rapunzel | punct |
| 2 | Rapunzel | Rapunzel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Let | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Rapunzel | punct |
| 4 | Rapunzel | Rapunzel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Rapunzel | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rapunzel | punct |
| 6 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 Let | compound:prt |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hair | nmod:poss |
| 9 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hair | amod |
| 10 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Let | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let down | infinitive | Rapunzel and Rapunzel | your golden hair | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/119/