--- title: In her anger she clutched Rapunzel’s beautiful tresses, wrapped them… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/18/71/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/18/) / 71 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2591:18:71 # text = 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. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 clutched clutch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Rapunzel Rapunzel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’s 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 tresses tress NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 wrapped wrap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 11 advmod _ _ 14 round round ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 seized seize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 scissors scissors NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 snip snip NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 snap snap NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 36 off off ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 braids braid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ _ 42 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 43 on on ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/18/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/18/72/) - ↑ back to [3. 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