Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 33

He went to the tower in which his mother was confined, and as it was so high, he wished for a ladder which would reach up to the very top.

Who acts: cook, tower, ladder · What happens: go, confine, be, wish, reach up · To what, where: tower, mother

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook, tower, ladder), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 tower	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tower	det
5	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 confined	obl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 confined	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 confined	aux:pass
11	confined	confine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tower	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wished	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wished	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 high	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 high	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 high	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 high	advmod
18	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wished	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 high	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wished	nsubj
21	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 ladder	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 ladder	det
24	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wished	obl
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 reach	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 reach	aux
27	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ladder	acl:relcl
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 reach	compound:prt
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 top	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 top	det
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 top	advmod
32	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reach	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	cook		the tower		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tower=Initial_Location
2	confine	past · passive		cook's mother	the tower		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination
3	is	past	tower			high property	tree rules
4	wish	past	cook			for a ladder	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for ladder=Theme
5	reach up	would	a ladder			to the top	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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