The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 117

Rapunzel was the most beautiful child under the sun. When she was twelve years old the Witch shut her up in a tower, in the middle of a great wood, and the tower had neither stairs nor doors, only high up at the very top a small window.

Who acts: Rapunzel, wife, beautiful child, tower · What happens: be, shut up, have · To what, where: beautiful child, sun., wife, tower, stairs

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 (Rapunzel, wife, beautiful child, tower), 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	Rapunzel	Rapunzel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 child	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 child	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 beautiful	advmod
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shut	nsubj
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 sun.	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun.	det
9	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 child	nmod
10	When	when	SCONJ	_	15 old	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 old	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 old	cop
13	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 old	obl:unmarked
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 child	amod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Witch	det
17	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 old	nsubj
18	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 shut	obj
20	up	up	ADP	_	18 shut	compound:prt
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 tower	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 tower	det
23	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shut	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 middle	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 middle	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 middle	det
27	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shut	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 wood	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 wood	det
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 wood	amod
31	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 middle	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 had	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 had	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 tower	det
35	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 shut	conj
37	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	38 stairs	det
38	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 had	obj
39	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	40 doors	cc
40	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 stairs	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 up	punct
42	only	only	ADV	_	44 up	advmod
43	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 up	advmod
44	up	up	ADV	_	36 had	xcomp
45	at	at	ADP	_	48 top	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 top	det
47	very	very	ADV	_	48 top	advmod
48	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 up	conj
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 window	det
50	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 window	amod
51	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 top	nsubj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Rapunzel	the beautiful child	the sun.			tree rules
2	is	past	wife			year	old property	tree rules
3	shut up	past	the beautiful child	wife	a tower		in the middle of a great wood	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4	have	past	the tower	neither stairs nor doors				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stair=Patient

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.

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