The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 157

So he wandered about for some years, as wretched and unhappy as he could well be, and at last he came to the desert place where Rapunzel was living.

Who acts: Prince, Rapunzel · What happens: wander, come, live · To what, where: last

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 (Prince, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 wandered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wandered	nsubj
3	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	3 wandered	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 years	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 years	det
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wandered	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wretched	punct
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 wretched	case
10	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wandered	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 unhappy	cc
12	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wretched	conj
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 be	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 be	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 be	aux
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 be	advmod
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 unhappy	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 last	case
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 came	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wandered	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 place	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 place	det
26	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 place	compound
27	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 living	advmod
29	Rapunzel	Rapunzel	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 living	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 living	aux
31	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 place	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	Prince		year	about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	Prince	last		to the desert place	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
3	live	past · progressive	Rapunzel				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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