The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 29

‘He has heard and he will follow,’ said the horse; ‘but we have a good start,’ And on they sped, on and on, leaving the winds behind them.

Who acts: king, horse, we, windows · What happens: hear, follow, say, have, speed, leave · To what, where: good start, winds · Speech: someone speaks here

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, horse, we, windows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3454:770): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 follow	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 follow	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 follow	aux
8	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 heard	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 horse	det
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 have	cc
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 start	det
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 start	amod
21	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
24	And	and	CCONJ	_	27 sped	cc
25	on	on	ADV	_	27 sped	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sped	nsubj
27	sped	speed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sped	punct
29	on	on	ADV	_	27 sped	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 on	cc
31	on	on	ADV	_	29 on	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 leaving	punct
33	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 sped	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 winds	det
35	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 leaving	obj
36	behind	behind	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 leaving	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	present · perfect	king			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	follow	future	king			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the horse			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	present	we	a good start		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent start=Patient
5	speed	past	windows = window			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	leave	gerund	windows = window not said here	the winds	behind windows = window	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wind=Theme behind they=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: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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