The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 149

And, worse than this, she was so hard-hearted that she took Rapunzel to a lonely desert place, and there left her to live in loneliness and misery.

Who acts: mother · What happens: be, take, leave, live · To what, where: Rapunzel, lonely desert place, mother, loneliness

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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:3286): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 hearted	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 worse	punct
3	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 hearted	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 worse	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 worse	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hearted	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hearted	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 hearted	advmod
10	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hearted	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 hard	punct
12	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 took	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hearted	advcl
16	Rapunzel	Rapunzel	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	21 place	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 place	det
19	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 place	amod
20	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 place	compound
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 left	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 left	cc
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 left	advmod
25	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 left	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 live	mark
28	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 left	xcomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 loneliness	case
30	loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 live	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 misery	cc
32	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 loneliness	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 hearted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	mother			hearted property	tree rules
2	take	past	mother	Rapunzel	a lonely desert place		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rapunzel=Theme to place=Destination
3	leave	past	mother not said here	mother	there		tree rules
4	live	to-infinitive	mother not said here		loneliness and misery		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in loneliness=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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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