The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 15

Away he went after the Prince and the Master-maid so fast that the wind whistled behind him, and it was not long before he came to the water, but he could not get over it.

Who acts: giant, wind · What happens: go, whistle, not be, come, not get · To what, where: water, wind

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, 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	Away	away	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
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	after	after	ADP	_	6 Prince	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 maid	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 maid	det
9	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 maid	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Master	punct
11	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Prince	conj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 fast	advmod
13	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 went	advmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 whistled	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wind	det
16	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whistled	nsubj
17	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	advcl
18	behind	behind	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 whistled	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 long	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 long	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 long	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 long	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 long	advmod
25	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 came	advmod
26	before	before	SCONJ	_	28 came	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 water	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 water	det
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 get	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 get	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 get	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 get	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 get	advmod
37	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 came	conj
38	over	over	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 get	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	giant		after the Prince and the Master maid	away, fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	whistle	past	the wind			behind giant	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Location
3	not is	past	wind			long property	tree rules
4	come	past	giant	the water			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to water=Initial_Location
5	not get	could	giant	wind			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over it=Destination

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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