Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 52

But, try what she would, she could not get the pitch off and it stuck to her as long as she lived.

Who acts: you, mother, pitch · What happens: try, not get off, stick, live · To what, where: pitch, mother

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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 (you, mother, pitch), 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	_	3 try	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 try	punct
3	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 try	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 would	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 get	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 get	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 get	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 get	advmod
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 try	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pitch	det
13	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obj
14	off	off	ADP	_	11 get	compound:prt
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stuck	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stuck	nsubj
17	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 get	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stuck	obl
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 long	advmod
21	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 stuck	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 lived	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lived	nsubj
24	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 long	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	not get off	could	mother	the pitch			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pitch=Stimulus
3	stick	past	pitch		mother	long property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	live	past	mother				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: «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.

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