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title: But the pitch stuck fast to her, and could not be got off as long as… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: But the pitch stuck fast to her, and could not be got off as long as she lived. Who acts: girl. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 50

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But the pitch stuck fast to her, and could not be got off as long as she lived.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** stick, not get off, live · **To what, where:** pitch, girl

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» 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 (girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:20:50
# text = But the pitch stuck fast to her, and could not be got off as long as she lived.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick** | participle · passive |  | the pitch | girl |  |  | fast *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to she=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **not** **get off** | could · passive |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING» |
| 3 | **live** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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