Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 82

Thus he roamed about in misery for some years, and at length came to the desert where Rapunzel, with the twins to which she had given birth, a boy and a girl, lived in wretchedness.

Who acts: son, RAPUNZEL · What happens: roam, come, give, live · To what, where: length, birth, twins, wretchedness

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 (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	_	6 misery	case
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 misery	case
6	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 roamed	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 years	det
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 roamed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 length	case
13	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 roamed	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 desert	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 desert	det
17	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 Rapunzel	advmod
19	Rapunzel	Rapunzel	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 desert	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 twins	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 twins	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 twins	det
23	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 came	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 given	obl
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 given	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 given	aux
28	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 twins	acl:relcl
29	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 given	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 boy	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 boy	det
32	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 birth	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 girl	cc
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 girl	det
35	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 birth	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 lived	punct
37	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 roamed	conj
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 wretchedness	case
39	wretchedness	wretchedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lived	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 roamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roam	past	son				year	about misery; thus property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about misery=Trajectory
2	come	past	son not said here			length		to the desert Rapunzel	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to desert=Initial_Location
3	give	past · perfect	RAPUNZEL	birth and a boy and a girl	the twins				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to which=Recipient
4	live	past	son not said here			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: «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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