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title: He went to the tower in which his mother was confined, and as it was… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 33

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg2591:31:33
# text = 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.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	confined	confine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	very	very	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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:** «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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