The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 62

But after the windlass loosened accidentally when they were pulling up her bridegroom that was to be, there was no more sign of a well, or a rope, or a windlass, than there is on the palm of your hand.

Who acts: crowns, palm · What happens: loosen, pull up, not be, be · To what, where: bridegroom, more sign

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowns, palm), 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 loosened	cc
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 windlass	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 windlass	det
4	windlass	windlass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loosened	obl
5	loosened	loosen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sign	nsubj
6	accidentally	accidentally	ADV	_	5 loosened	advmod
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 pulling	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pulling	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pulling	aux
10	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 loosened	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 pulling	compound:prt
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bridegroom	nmod:poss
13	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pulling	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 be	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 be	cop
16	to	to	PART	_	17 be	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 bridegroom	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 was	punct
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 was	expl
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sign	cop
21	no	no	ADV	_	23 sign	advmod
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 sign	amod
23	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 well	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 well	det
26	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sign	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 rope	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 rope	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 rope	det
30	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sign	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 windlass	punct
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 windlass	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 windlass	det
34	windlass	windlass	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sign	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 is	punct
36	than	than	SCONJ	_	38 is	mark
37	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	38 is	expl
38	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 sign	parataxis
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 palm	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 palm	det
41	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 is	nsubj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 hand	case
43	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 hand	nmod:poss
44	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 palm	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 sign	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	loosen	past				after the windlass	accidentally property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	pull up	past · progressive	crowns = crown	princess's bridegroom				vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent bridegroom=Result
3	not is a	past		more sign or a rope or a windlass			of a well	tree rules
4	be	present	the palm of your hand		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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