--- title: In her wrath she seized Rapunzel’s beautiful hair, wound it round an… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lan --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/148/) [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/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Twelve Brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/) / 148 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:41:148 # text = 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. 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 wrath wrath NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 seized seize 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 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 wound wound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 round round ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 round round ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ _ 22 grasping grasp VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 scissors scissors NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 snip snip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 32 snap snap NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 off off ADP IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ 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 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 plaits plait NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ _ 42 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 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 | **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. - ← previous: [sentence 147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/147/) - next →: [sentence 149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/149/) - ↑ back to [The Twelve Brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/)