Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 50
But the pitch stuck fast to her, and could not be got off as long as she lived.
Who acts: girl · What happens: stick, not get off, live · To what, where: pitch, girl
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 stuck | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pitch | det |
| 3 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stuck | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 stuck | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stuck | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 got | cc |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 got | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 got | aux:pass |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stuck | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 got | compound:prt |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 long | advmod |
| 16 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 got | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 lived | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lived | nsubj |
| 19 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 long | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | participle · passive | the pitch | girl | fast property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to she=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | not get off | could · passive | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING» | |||||
| 3 | live | past | girl | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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