The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 159
He walked eagerly in the direction of the sound, and when he was quite close, Rapunzel recognised him and fell on his neck and wept.
Who acts: Prince, Rapunzel · What happens: walk, be, recognise, fall, weep · To what, where: direction, Prince, neck
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 (Prince, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 2 walked | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 direction | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 direction | det |
| 6 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sound | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sound | det |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 direction | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 close | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 close | cc |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 close | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 close | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 close | cop |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 close | advmod |
| 16 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 walked | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 recognised | punct |
| 18 | Rapunzel | Rapunzel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 recognised | nsubj |
| 19 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | parataxis |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 recognised | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fell | cc |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 recognised | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 neck | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 neck | nmod:poss |
| 25 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fell | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wept | cc |
| 27 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fell | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Prince | the direction of the sound | eagerly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | is | past | Prince | close property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | recognise | past | Rapunzel | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | Rapunzel not said here | Prince's neck | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on neck=Location | ||||
| 5 | weep | past | Rapunzel not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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