Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 115

In her anger she clutched Rapunzel's beautiful tresses, wrapped them twice round her left hand, seized a pair of scissors with the right, and snip, snip, they were cut off, and the lovely braids lay on the ground.

Who acts: enchantress, lovely braids · What happens: clutch, wrap, seize, cut off, lay, anger · To what, where: beautiful tresses, anger, tresses, pair, ground

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 (enchantress, lovely braids), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 anger	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 anger	nmod:poss
3	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clutched	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 clutched	nsubj
5	clutched	clutch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Rapunzel	Rapunzel	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 tresses	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Rapunzel	case
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tresses	amod
9	tresses	tress	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 clutched	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wrapped	punct
11	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clutched	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wrapped	obj
13	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 wrapped	advmod
14	round	round	ADP	_	17 hand	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hand	nmod:poss
16	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hand	amod
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wrapped	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seized	punct
19	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clutched	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pair	det
21	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seized	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 scissors	case
23	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 pair	nmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 right	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 right	det
26	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 scissors	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 snip	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 snip	cc
29	snip	snip	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seized	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 snip	punct
31	snip	snip	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 snip	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 cut	punct
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 cut	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 cut	aux:pass
35	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 clutched	parataxis
36	off	off	ADP	_	35 cut	compound:prt
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 lay	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 lay	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 braids	det
40	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 braids	amod
41	braids	braid	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 lay	nsubj
42	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 cut	conj
43	on	on	ADP	_	45 ground	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 ground	det
45	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 lay	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 clutched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	clutch	past	enchantress	Rapunzel's beautiful tresses	enchantress's anger		vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tress=Theme
2	wrap	past	enchantress not said here	tresses = tress		round enchantress's left hand; twice property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	seize	past	enchantress not said here	a pair of scissors with the right		snip and snip obl	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme
4	cut off	past · passive		tresses = tress			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
5	lay	present	the lovely braids		the ground		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination
6	anger		enchantress				nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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: «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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