Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 127

Thus he roamed about I in misery for some years, and at length came to the desert where Rapunzel lived in wretchedness.

Who acts: son, Rapunzel · What happens: roam, come, live · To what, where: misery, length, wretchedness

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 (son, Rapunzel), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	3 roamed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 roamed	nsubj
3	roamed	roam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 I	case
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 roamed	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 misery	case
7	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 roamed	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 years	case
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 years	det
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 roamed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 length	case
14	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 roamed	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 desert	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 desert	det
18	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 lived	advmod
20	Rapunzel	Rapunzel	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 lived	nsubj
21	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 desert	acl:relcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 wretchedness	case
23	wretchedness	wretchedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lived	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 roamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	roam	past	son	misery	year	about I; thus property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about i=Trajectory
2	come	past	son not said here	length		to the desert	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to desert=Initial_Location
3	live	past	Rapunzel	wretchedness			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wretchedness=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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