The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 129
Then Rapunzel let down her plaits, and the Witch climbed up by them.
Who acts: Rapunzel, Witch · What happens: let down, climb up · To what, where: plaits
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, Witch), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 let | advmod |
| 2 | Rapunzel | Rapunzel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 let | compound:prt |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 plaits | nmod:poss |
| 6 | plaits | plait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 let | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 climbed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 climbed | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Witch | det |
| 10 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 climbed | nsubj |
| 11 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | parataxis |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 climbed | compound:prt |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 climbed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let down | past | Rapunzel | wife's plaits | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plait=Theme | |||
| 2 | climb up | past | the Witch | by plaits = plait | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by they=Trajectory |
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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