The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 120
for Rapunzel had wonderful long hair, and it was as fine as spun gold.
Who acts: Rapunzel · What happens: have, be, spin · To what, where: wonderful long 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 | for | for | ADP | _ | 2 Rapunzel | case |
| 2 | Rapunzel | Rapunzel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hair | amod |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hair | amod |
| 6 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fine | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fine | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fine | expl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fine | cop |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 fine | advmod |
| 12 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 gold | case |
| 14 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 gold | amod |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fine | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Rapunzel | wonderful long hair | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Rapunzel not said here | as spun gold; fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spin | participle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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.
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