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title: This was Rapunzel, who in her solitude passed her time in letting he… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · 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 «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 53

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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 «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.

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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:pg2591:18:53
# 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:** «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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