The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 80

But like the two stones his leg remained stuck to the wax, and he was held fast.

What happens: stick, hold · To what, where: leg, breeze

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 stuck	cc
2	like	like	ADP	_	5 stones	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stones	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 stones	nummod
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stuck	obl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 leg	nmod:poss
7	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stuck	nsubj:pass
8	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stuck	aux:pass
9	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 wax	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wax	det
12	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stuck	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 held	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 held	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 held	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 held	aux:pass
17	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 stuck	conj
18	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 held	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stuck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	past · passive		breeze's leg				like the two stones; to the wax	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to wax=Co-Patient
2	hold	past · passive		breeze				fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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