The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 74

As for the donkey’s tail, it was impossible to get rid of that; it was as firmly fixed on her forehead as was the golden star on Lizina’s.

What happens: be, get, fix · To what, where: tail, forehead

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	6 tail	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 donkey	det
4	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tail	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 donkey	case
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 impossible	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tail	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 impossible	expl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 impossible	cop
10	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 get	mark
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 impossible	csubj
13	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 get	xcomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 that	case
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 rid	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 fixed	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fixed	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fixed	aux:pass
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 firmly	case
20	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	21 fixed	obl
21	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 impossible	parataxis
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 forehead	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 forehead	nmod:poss
24	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fixed	obl
25	as	as	ADP	_	29 star	case
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 star	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 star	det
28	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 star	amod
29	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fixed	obl
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 Lizina	case
31	Lizina	Lizina	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 star	appos
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 Lizina	case
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 impossible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past			as the donkey's tail; impossible property	tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive			rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	fix	past · passive	tail	Peppina's forehead		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
4	is	past			as the golden star	tree rules

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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