The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 21

They caught the wind that blew before them, and the wind that blew behind them did not catch them.

Who acts: steeds, wind · What happens: catch, blow, not catch · To what, where: wind, steeds

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 (steeds, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 blew	nsubj
6	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wind	acl:relcl
7	before	before	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 blew	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 catch	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 catch	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 catch	nsubj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 blew	nsubj
14	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wind	acl:relcl
15	behind	behind	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 blew	obl
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 catch	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 catch	advmod
19	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 caught	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 catch	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	steeds = steed	the wind			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme
2	blow	past	the wind		before steeds = steed		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	blow	past	the wind			behind steeds = steed	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	not catch	past · do-support	the wind	steeds = steed			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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