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title: Thus he roamed about I in misery for some years, and at length came… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 127

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

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:19:127
# text = Thus he roamed about I in misery for some years, and at length came to the desert where Rapunzel lived in wretchedness.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	roamed	roam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	misery	misery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
20	Rapunzel	Rapunzel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	wretchedness	wretchedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | 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 |

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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.

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**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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