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title: But on the evening of the day in which she had driven poor Rapunzel… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But on the evening of the day in which she had driven poor Rapunzel away, the Witch fastened the plaits on to a hook in the window, and when the Prince came and called out: Who acts: mother, Witch, Prince. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers, with its dependency tr
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 150

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But on the evening of the day in which she had driven poor Rapunzel away, the Witch fastened the plaits on to a hook in the window, and when the Prince came and called out:

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**Who acts:** mother, Witch, Prince · **What happens:** drive away, fasten on, come, call out · **To what, where:** poor Rapunzel, plaits

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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 (mother, Witch, Prince), 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:pg540:41:150
# text = But on the evening of the day in which she had driven poor Rapunzel away, the Witch fastened the plaits on to a hook in the window, and when the Prince came and called out:
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Rapunzel	Rapunzel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Witch	Witch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	plaits	plait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	34	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive away** | past · perfect | mother | poor Rapunzel |  |  | in the day | away *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rapunzel=Theme in which=Destination |
| 2 | **fasten on** | past | the Witch | the plaits |  |  | evening | to a hook in the window | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent plait=Patient to hook=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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