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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 91

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The man in his terror consented to everything, and when the little one came to them, the enchantress appeared at once, gave the child the name of Rapunzel, and took it away with her.

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**Who acts:** man, little one, enchantress · **What happens:** consent, come, appear, give, take away, name · **To what, where:** man, name, child, Rapunzel

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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 (man, little one, enchantress), 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:pg11027:19:91
# text = The man in his terror consented to everything, and when the little one came to them, the enchantress appeared at once, gave the child the name of Rapunzel, and took it away with her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	consented	consent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Rapunzel	Rapunzel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	away	away	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consent** | past | the man in husband's terror |  |  |  |  | to everything | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to everything=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the little one |  | man |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **appear** | past | the enchantress |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 4 | **give** | past | the enchantress *not said here* | the name of Rapunzel | the child |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient name=Theme |
| 5 | **take away** | past | the man in husband's terror *not said here* | name |  |  |  | with enchantress; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **name** |  |  | Rapunzel |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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