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title: But after the windlass loosened accidentally when they were pulling… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book,
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 62

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg3454:11:62
# text = 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.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	windlass	windlass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	loosened	loosen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	nsubj	_	_
6	accidentally	accidentally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	no	no	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
23	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	windlass	windlass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	38	expl	_	_
38	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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