The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 15

So he waved his hand and set out on his journey, and the wind was not swifter than the brown horse--no, not even the March wind which raced it and could not catch it.

Who acts: king, wind · What happens: wave, set out, not be, race, not catch, journey · To what, where: hand, journey, swifter, wind

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 waved	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waved	nsubj
3	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waved	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 set	cc
7	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 waved	conj
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 set	compound:prt
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 journey	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 journey	nmod:poss
11	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 set	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 swifter	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 swifter	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wind	det
15	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swifter	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 swifter	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 swifter	advmod
18	swifter	swifter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waved	obl
19	than	than	ADP	_	22 horse	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 horse	det
21	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 horse	amod
22	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swifter	nmod
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 wind	punct
24	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	30 wind	discourse
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wind	punct
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 wind	advmod
27	even	even	ADV	_	30 wind	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wind	det
29	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 wind	nmod:unmarked
30	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swifter	appos
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 raced	nsubj
32	raced	race	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 wind	acl:relcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 raced	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 catch	cc
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 catch	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 catch	advmod
37	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 raced	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 catch	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wave	past	king	king's hand			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	set out	infinitive	king not said here		king's journey		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is a	past	the wind	swifter		than the brown horse	tree rules
4	race	past	the wind March	wind			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	not catch	could	the wind March not said here	wind			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	journey		king				nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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