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title: Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold, and when she… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold, and when she heard the voice of the enchantress she unfastened her braided tresses, wound them round one of the hooks of the window above, and then the hair fell twenty yards down, and the enchantress climbed up by it. Who acts: Rapunzel, voice,
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 95

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Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold, and when she heard the voice of the enchantress she unfastened her braided tresses, wound them round one of the hooks of the window above, and then the hair fell twenty yards down, and the enchantress climbed up by it.

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**Who acts:** Rapunzel, voice, hair, enchantress · **What happens:** magnificent, spin, hear, unfasten, braid, wound · **To what, where:** long hair, tresses

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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 (Rapunzel, voice, hair, 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:pg11027:19:95
# text = Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold, and when she heard the voice of the enchantress she unfastened her braided tresses, wound them round one of the hooks of the window above, and then the hair fell twenty yards down, and the enchantress climbed up by it.
1	Rapunzel	Rapunzel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	magnificent	magnificent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	unfastened	unfasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	braided	braid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
25	tresses	tress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	wound	wound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	round	round	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	hooks	hook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	above	above	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	43	advmod	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
44	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
46	down	down	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
51	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
52	up	up	ADP	RP	_	51	compound:prt	_	_
53	by	by	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **magnificent** | past · perfect | Rapunzel | long hair |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spin** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | past | RAPUNZEL |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **unfasten** | past | the voice of the enchantress |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **braid** | past | RAPUNZEL | tresses |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tress=Patient |
| 6 | **wound** | infinitive | the voice of the enchantress *not said here* | tresses *= tress* |  |  |  | round one of the hooks of the window | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
| 7 | **fall** | past | the hair |  |  |  | then | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **climb up** | past | the enchantress |  |  |  |  | by hair | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by it=Trajectory |

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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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