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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

casenmod:possoblnsubjnmod:posscaseamodobjpunctconjobjadvmodcasenmod:possamodoblpunctconjdetobjcasenmodcasedetnmodpunctccoblpunctconjpunctnsubjaux:passparataxiscompound:prtpunctccdetamodnsubjconjcasedetoblpunctrootInADPherPRONangerNOUNshePRONclutchedVERBRapunzelPROPN’sPARTbeautifulADJtressesNOUN,PUNCTwrappedVERBthemPRONtwiceADVroundADPherPRONleftADJhandNOUN,PUNCTseizedVERBaDETpairNOUNofADPscissorsNOUNwithADPtheDETrightNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJsnipNOUN,PUNCTsnapNOUN,PUNCTtheyPRONwereAUXcutVERBoffADP,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETlovelyADJbraidsNOUNlayVERBonADPtheDETgroundNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_3 angercase
2herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 angernmod:poss
3angerangerNOUNNumber=Sing5 clutchedobl
4sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 clutchednsubj
5clutchedclutchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6RapunzelRapunzelPROPNNumber=Sing9 tressesnmod:poss
7’s'sPART_6 Rapunzelcase
8beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos9 tressesamod
9tressestressNOUNNumber=Plur5 clutchedobj
10,,PUNCT_11 wrappedpunct
11wrappedwrapVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 clutchedconj
12themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs11 wrappedobj
13twicetwiceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult11 wrappedadvmod
14roundroundADP_17 handcase
15herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 handnmod:poss
16leftleftADJDegree=Pos17 handamod
17handhandNOUNNumber=Sing11 wrappedobl
18,,PUNCT_19 seizedpunct
19seizedseizeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 clutchedconj
20aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art21 pairdet
21pairpairNOUNNumber=Sing19 seizedobj
22ofofADP_23 scissorscase
23scissorsscissorsNOUNNumber=Plur21 pairnmod
24withwithADP_26 rightcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 rightdet
26rightrightNOUNNumber=Sing23 scissorsnmod
27,,PUNCT_29 snippunct
28andandCCONJ_29 snipcc
29snipsnipNOUNNumber=Sing19 seizedobl
30,,PUNCT_31 snappunct
31snapsnapNOUNNumber=Sing29 snipconj
32,,PUNCT_35 cutpunct
33theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs35 cutnsubj
34werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin35 cutaux:pass
35cutcutVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass5 clutchedparataxis
36offoffADP_35 cutcompound:prt
37,,PUNCT_42 laypunct
38andandCCONJ_42 laycc
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 braidsdet
40lovelylovelyADJDegree=Pos41 braidsamod
41braidsbraidNOUNNumber=Plur42 laynsubj
42laylayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin35 cutconj
43ononADP_45 groundcase
44thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art45 grounddet
45groundgroundNOUNNumber=Sing42 layobl
46..PUNCT_5 clutchedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1clutchpastwomanRapunzel's beautiful tresseswoman's angervn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tress=Theme
2wrappastwoman not said heretresses = tressround woman's left hand; twice propertyvn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3seizepastwoman not said herea pair of scissors with the rightsnip and snap oblvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme
4cut offpast · passivetresses = tressvn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
5laypresentthe lovely braidsthe groundvn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination
6angerwomannom 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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