The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 58

He set out at full speed; but he started too late, and was further delayed by a strong wind which the Fairy raised behind the young couple so as to baffle any pursuit.

Who acts: King, strong wind · What happens: set out, start, delay, fairy, raise, baffle · To what, where: full speed, Fairy, young couple, pursuit

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (King, strong 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 set	compound:prt
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 speed	case
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 speed	amod
6	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 set	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 started	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 started	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 started	nsubj
10	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	conj
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 late	advmod
12	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 started	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 delayed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 delayed	cc
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 delayed	aux:pass
16	further	further	ADV	_	17 delayed	advmod
17	delayed	delay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 set	parataxis
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 wind	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 wind	det
20	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wind	amod
21	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 delayed	obl
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 Fairy	nsubj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Fairy	det
24	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wind	conj
25	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 Fairy	acl
26	behind	behind	ADP	_	29 couple	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 couple	det
28	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 couple	amod
29	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 raised	obl
30	so	so	ADV	_	33 baffle	advmod
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 baffle	mark
32	to	to	PART	_	33 baffle	mark
33	baffle	baffle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 delayed	advcl
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	35 pursuit	det
35	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 baffle	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set out	past	King		full speed		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	start	past	King			late property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	delay	past · passive	a strong wind and the Fairy			further property	vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	fairy		a strong wind and the Fairy				tree rules
5	raise	participle		the Fairy not said here	the young couple		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent behind couple=Destination
6	baffle	to-infinitive	a strong wind and the Fairy not said here	any pursuit			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pursuit=Experiencer

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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