The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 124
It was Rapunzel in her loneliness trying to while away the time by letting her sweet voice ring out into the wood.
Who acts: tower, loneliness, sweet voice · What happens: be, try, while away, let, r out · To what, where: Rapunzel, loneliness, sweet voice, wood
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 (tower, loneliness, sweet voice), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 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 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 loneliness | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 loneliness | nmod:poss |
| 6 | loneliness | loneliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Rapunzel | nmod |
| 7 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 loneliness | acl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 while | mark |
| 9 | while | while | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 trying | xcomp |
| 10 | away | away | ADP | _ | 9 while | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 while | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 letting | mark |
| 14 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 while | advcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 voice | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 voice | amod |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 letting | obj |
| 18 | ring | r | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 letting | xcomp |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 ring | compound:prt |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 wood | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wood | det |
| 22 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ring | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rapunzel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | tower | Rapunzel | wife's loneliness | tree rules | |||
| 2 | try | gerund | wife's loneliness not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | while away not said to happen | to-infinitive | wife's loneliness not said here | time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | let | gerund | wife's loneliness not said here | wife's sweet voice | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | r out | gerund | wife's sweet voice not said here | the wood | tree rules |
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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