--- title: she let them down, and the Prince climbed up as usual, but instead o… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers, wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/152/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Twelve Brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/) / 152 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:41:152 # text = 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: 1 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 down down ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 15 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 19 case _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 15 fixed _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 beloved beloved ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 Rapunzel rapunzel NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 Witch Witch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 fixed fix VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 glittering glitter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 32 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 38 mockingly mockingly ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/151/) - next →: [sentence 153](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/153/) - ↑ back to [The Twelve Brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/)