More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 131

Off he went as fast as the wind, which the wind behind could not catch the wind before, until he came to the second oldest brother's house.

Who acts: man, wind · What happens: go, not catch, come · To what, where: wind, house

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, wind), 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	Off	off	ADP	_	3 went	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 went	advmod
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 wind	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wind	det
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 catch	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 catch	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 catch	nsubj
13	behind	behind	ADV	_	12 wind	advmod
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 catch	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 catch	advmod
16	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wind	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wind	det
18	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 catch	obj
19	before	before	ADV	_	16 catch	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
21	until	until	SCONJ	_	23 came	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 catch	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	30 house	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 brother	det
26	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 brother	amod
27	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 brother	amod
28	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 house	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 brother	case
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	man			as the wind; fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not catch	could	the wind	the wind		before property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent which=Beneficiary wind=Theme
3	come	past	man		the second oldest brother's house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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