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title: The poor boy still clung on as if glued to the glass by his blood-st… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor boy still clung on as if glued to the glass by his blood-stained hands. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 37

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

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

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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.

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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:pg640:22:37
# text = The poor boy still clung on as if glued to the glass by his blood-stained hands.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	clung	cling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	glued	glue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
15	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	stained	stain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	amod	_	_
18	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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:** «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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