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description: The enchantress remarked nothing of this, until once Rapunzel said to her, "Tell me, Dame Gothel, how it happens that you are so much heavier for me to draw up than the young King's son--he is with me in a moment." " Who acts: enchantress, Rapunzel, it, horse. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» b
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 112

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The enchantress remarked nothing of this, until once Rapunzel said to her, "Tell me, Dame Gothel, how it happens that you are so much heavier for me to draw up than the young King's son--he is with me in a moment." "

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**Who acts:** enchantress, Rapunzel, it, horse · **What happens:** remark, say, tell, happen, be, draw up · **To what, where:** nothing, enchantress, Dame Gothel, Rapunzel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enchantress, Rapunzel, it, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:19:112
# text = The enchantress remarked nothing of this, until once Rapunzel said to her, "Tell me, Dame Gothel, how it happens that you are so much heavier for me to draw up than the young King's son--he is with me in a moment." "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	Rapunzel	Rapunzel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Gothel	Gothel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	much	much	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	parataxis	_	_
31	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	than	than	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	's	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
44	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
52	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle | the enchantress *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Rapunzel |  | enchantress |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Dame Gothel | Rapunzel |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 4 | **happen** *in a quote* | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | enchantress |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **draw up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Rapunzel |  |  |  |  | than the young King's son | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | horse |  |  |  | moment | with Rapunzel | tree rules |

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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.

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**Text:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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