More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 63

She grabbed with both hands at a snag near by to steady herself with, but as she touched it, it twined itself round her wrists, like a pair of handcuffs, and gript her so that she couldn't move.

Who acts: goodwife, snag · What happens: grab, touch, twine, gript, not move · To what, where: snag, wrists, goodwife

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goodwife, snag), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grabbed	nsubj
2	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 hands	case
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 hands	det
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grabbed	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 snag	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 snag	det
8	snag	snag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grabbed	obl
9	near	near	ADV	_	12 steady	advmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 steady	case
11	to	to	PART	_	12 steady	mark
12	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grabbed	advcl
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 steady	nsubj
14	with	with	ADP	_	12 steady	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 twined	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 twined	cc
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 touched	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 touched	nsubj
19	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 twined	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 touched	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 touched	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 twined	nsubj
23	twined	twine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grabbed	conj
24	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 twined	obj
25	round	round	ADP	_	27 wrists	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wrists	nmod:poss
27	wrists	wrist	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 twined	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pair	punct
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 pair	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 pair	det
31	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 twined	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 handcuffs	case
33	handcuffs	handcuff	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 pair	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 gript	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 gript	cc
36	gript	gript	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grabbed	conj
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 gript	obj
38	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	43 move	mark
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 so	fixed
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 move	nsubj
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 move	aux
42	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 move	advmod
43	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 gript	advcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grabbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grab	past	goodwife		a snag	with both hands	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	touch	past	goodwife	snag			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
3	twine	past	snag	snag	goodwife's wrists	like a pair of handcuffs	vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent itself=Theme round wrist=Destination
4	gript	past	goodwife not said here	goodwife			tree rules
5	not move	could	goodwife				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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