Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 98
This was Rapunzel, who in her solitude passed her time in letting her sweet voice resound.
Who acts: This, Rapunzel · What happens: be, pass, let · To what, where: Rapunzel, solitude, sweet voice resound
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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Rapunzel | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Rapunzel | cop |
| 3 | Rapunzel | Rapunzel | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 passed | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 passed | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 solitude | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 solitude | nmod:poss |
| 8 | solitude | solitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 passed | obl |
| 9 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Rapunzel | acl:relcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 time | nmod:poss |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 passed | obj |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 letting | mark |
| 13 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 passed | advcl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 resound | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 resound | amod |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 resound | compound |
| 17 | resound | resound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 letting | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rapunzel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | Rapunzel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | Rapunzel | RAPUNZEL's solitude | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in solitude=Location | |||
| 3 | let | gerund | Rapunzel not said here | RAPUNZEL's sweet voice resound | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resound=Theme |
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: «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/19/98/