The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 152

she let them down, and the Prince climbed up as usual, but instead of his beloved Rapunzel he found the old Witch, who fixed her evil, glittering eyes on him, and cried mockingly:

Who acts: witch, Prince, RAPUNZEL, old Witch · What happens: let down, climb up, find, fix, glitter, cry · To what, where: plaits, old Witch, evil, eyes

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 (witch, Prince, RAPUNZEL, old 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	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 let	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 climbed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 climbed	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Prince	det
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 climbed	nsubj
9	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 let	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 climbed	compound:prt
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 usual	case
12	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 climbed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 found	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 found	cc
15	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	19 Rapunzel	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 instead	fixed
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 Rapunzel	nmod:poss
18	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Rapunzel	amod
19	Rapunzel	rapunzel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 found	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 found	nsubj
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 let	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Witch	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Witch	amod
24	Witch	Witch	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 found	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fixed	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 fixed	nsubj
27	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 Witch	acl:relcl
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 evil	nmod:poss
29	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fixed	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 glittering	punct
31	glittering	glitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 fixed	advcl
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 glittering	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 glittering	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 cried	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 cried	cc
37	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 found	conj
38	mockingly	mockingly	ADV	_	37 cried	advmod
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let down	infinitive	witch	plaits = plait		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	climb up	past	the Prince		as usual	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past	RAPUNZEL	the old Witch	instead Prince's beloved Rapunzel	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Topic
4	fix	past	the old Witch	witch's evil		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent evil=Patient
5	glitter	gerund	the old Witch not said here	eyes	on RAPUNZEL	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
6	cry speech: express	past	RAPUNZEL not said here		mockingly property	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: «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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