Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 53
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 «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. 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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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