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title: This was Rapunzel, who in her solitude passed her time in letting he… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: This was Rapunzel, who in her solitude passed her time in letting her sweet voice resound. Who acts: This, Rapunzel. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 98

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This was Rapunzel, who in her solitude passed her time in letting her sweet voice resound.

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**Who acts:** This, Rapunzel · **What happens:** be, pass, let · **To what, where:** Rapunzel, solitude, sweet voice resound

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:19:98
# text = This was Rapunzel, who in her solitude passed her time in letting her sweet voice resound.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	Rapunzel	Rapunzel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	solitude	solitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	resound	resound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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.

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