The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 136

Very soon Rapunzel forgot her fear, and when he asked her to marry him she consented at once.

Who acts: Rapunzel, witch · What happens: forget, ask, marry, consent, fear · To what, where: fear, witch, RAPUNZEL

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, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 forgot	advmod
3	Rapunzel	Rapunzel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 forgot	nsubj
4	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fear	nmod:poss
6	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forgot	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 consented	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 consented	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 asked	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 consented	advcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	iobj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 marry	mark
14	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 marry	obj
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 consented	nsubj
17	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forgot	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 once	case
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 consented	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	forget	past	Rapunzel	witch's fear		soon property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	RAPUNZEL		witch		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	RAPUNZEL not said here	RAPUNZEL			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	consent	past	witch				vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fear		witch				nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=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.

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