Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 116
And she was so pitiless that she took poor Rapunzel into a desert, where she had to live in great grief and misery.
Who acts: enchantress · What happens: be, take, have, live · To what, where: poor Rapunzel, desert, great grief
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 (enchantress), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 pitiless | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pitiless | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pitiless | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 pitiless | advmod |
| 5 | pitiless | pitiless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 took | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pitiless | advcl |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Rapunzel | amod |
| 10 | Rapunzel | Rapunzel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 desert | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 desert | det |
| 13 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 had | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 desert | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 live | mark |
| 19 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 had | xcomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 grief | case |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 grief | amod |
| 22 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 live | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 misery | cc |
| 24 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 grief | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pitiless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | enchantress | pitiless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | enchantress | poor Rapunzel | a desert | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rapunzel=Theme into desert=Destination | |||
| 3 | have | past | enchantress | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | enchantress not said here | great grief and misery | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grief=Location |
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: «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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