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title: And, worse than this, she was so hard-hearted that she took Rapunzel… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 149

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:41:149
# text = 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.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	Rapunzel	Rapunzel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
25	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	misery	misery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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:** «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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