Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 71
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, snap, they were cut off, and the lovely braids lay on the ground.
Who acts: woman, 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 «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, 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 snap | punct |
| 31 | snap | snap | 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 | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clutch | past | woman | Rapunzel's beautiful tresses | woman's anger | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tress=Theme | |||
| 2 | wrap | past | woman not said here | tresses = tress | round woman's left hand; twice property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | seize | past | woman not said here | a pair of scissors with the right | snip and snap 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 | woman | 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: «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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