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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 117

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg540:41:117
# text = 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.
1	Rapunzel	Rapunzel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
18	shut	shut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
37	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	38	det	_	_
38	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
39	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	40	cc	_	_
40	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	only	only	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
43	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	44	advmod	_	_
44	up	up	ADV	RB	_	36	xcomp	_	_
45	at	at	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	very	very	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	conj	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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:** «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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