The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 37

The poor boy still clung on as if glued to the glass by his blood-stained hands.

What happens: cling on, glue, stain · To what, where: poor boy

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clung	nsubj:pass
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 clung	advmod
5	clung	cling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 clung	compound:prt
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 glued	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 glued	mark
9	glued	glue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 clung	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 glass	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 glass	det
12	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 glued	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	18 hands	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hands	nmod:poss
15	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stained	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 blood	punct
17	stained	stain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 hands	amod
18	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 glued	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 clung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cling on	participle · passive	the poor boy	still		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	glue	participle			to the glass; by boy's stained hands	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to glass=Co-Patient
3	stain	participle				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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