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title: First they lost sight of him, and then, after winding off a hundred… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 102

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

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

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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.

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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:pg3454:10:102
# text = First they lost sight of him, and then, after winding off a hundred perches of the silk rope, it slackened, and they stopped turning.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	winding	wind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	perches	perch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	slackened	slacken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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 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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