The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 148
In her wrath she seized Rapunzel’s beautiful hair, wound it round and round her left hand, and then grasping a pair of scissors in her right, snip snap, off it came, and the beautiful plaits lay on the ground.
Who acts: mother, snap, beautiful plaits · What happens: seize, wound, grasp, snip, come, lay · To what, where: beautiful hair, wrath, hair, pair, right, snap
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, snap, beautiful plaits), 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 wrath | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wrath | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seized | nsubj |
| 5 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Rapunzel | Rapunzel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hair | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Rapunzel | case |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hair | amod |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wound | punct |
| 11 | wound | wound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seized | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wound | obj |
| 13 | round | round | ADV | _ | 11 wound | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hand | cc |
| 15 | round | round | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hand | amod |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 round | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 grasping | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 grasping | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 grasping | advmod |
| 22 | grasping | grasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 seized | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pair | det |
| 24 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 grasping | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 scissors | case |
| 26 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 pair | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 right | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 right | nmod:poss |
| 29 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 grasping | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 snip | punct |
| 31 | snip | snip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 grasping | conj |
| 32 | snap | snap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 snip | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 came | punct |
| 34 | off | off | ADP | _ | 36 came | mark |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 came | nsubj |
| 36 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seized | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 lay | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 lay | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 plaits | det |
| 40 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 plaits | amod |
| 41 | plaits | plait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 lay | nsubj |
| 42 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 came | 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 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | mother | Rapunzel's beautiful hair | mother's wrath | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | |||
| 2 | wound | infinitive | mother not said here | hair | round property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | grasp | gerund | mother not said here | a pair of scissors | mother's right | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pair=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | snip | present | mother not said here | snap | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snap=Patient | ||||
| 5 | come | past | snap | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | lay | present | the beautiful plaits | the ground | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination |
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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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