The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 2

But the harder she pulled the firmer seemed the plant, and at last, determined not to be beaten, she gave one great tug, and the rosemary remained in her hands.

Who acts: girl, firmer, rosemary · What happens: pull, seem, not beat, give, remain · To what, where: plant, one great tug, hands

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, firmer, rosemary), 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	_	5 pulled	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 harder	det
3	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 pulled	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pulled	nsubj
5	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 firmer	det
7	firmer	firmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seemed	nsubj
8	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pulled	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plant	det
10	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seemed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 determined	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 determined	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 determined	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 last	punct
16	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pulled	advcl
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 beaten	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	20 beaten	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 beaten	aux:pass
20	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 determined	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gave	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gave	nsubj
23	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pulled	conj
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 tug	nummod
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 tug	amod
26	tug	tug	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gave	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 remained	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 remained	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 rosemary	det
30	rosemary	rosemary	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 remained	nsubj
31	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 gave	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 hands	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hands	nmod:poss
34	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 remained	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	pull	past	girl			tree rules
2	seem	past	the firmer	the plant		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plant=Attribute
3	not beat	to-infinitive · passive				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»
4	give	past	girl	one great tug		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tug=Theme
5	remain	past	the rosemary		girl's hands	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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