The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 102

First they lost sight of him, and then, after winding off a hundred perches of the silk rope, it slackened, and they stopped turning.

Who acts: others, sight · What happens: lose, wind off, slacken, stop, turn, sight · To what, where: sight, hundred perches, lake

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, sight), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 lost	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sight	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 slackened	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 slackened	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 slackened	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 then	punct
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 winding	mark
12	winding	wind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 slackened	advcl
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 winding	compound:prt
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hundred	det
15	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 perches	nummod
16	perches	perch	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 winding	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 rope	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rope	det
19	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rope	compound
20	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 perches	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 winding	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 slackened	nsubj
23	slackened	slacken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stopped	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stopped	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stopped	nsubj
27	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
28	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 stopped	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	others = other	sight of lake		first property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality
2	wind off	gerund	sight not said here	hundred perches of the silk rope			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent perch=Theme
3	slacken	past	sight		then		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	stop	past	others = other				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	turn	gerund	others = other not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	sight			lake			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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