The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 55

But the pitch remained sticking to her, and never as long as she lived could it be got off.

Who acts: pitch, girl · What happens: remain, stick, live, get off · To what, where: girl, pitch

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pitch, 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 remained	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pitch	det
3	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remained	nsubj
4	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sticking	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 remained	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sticking	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lived	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lived	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 long	advmod
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 long	advmod
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 lived	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 lived	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lived	nsubj
15	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remained	conj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 got	aux
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 got	nsubj
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 got	aux:pass
19	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 lived	parataxis
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 got	compound:prt
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	remain	past	the pitch				tree rules
2	stick	gerund	the pitch not said here		girl		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	live	past	girl			long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get off	could · passive		pitch			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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.

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