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title: Off he went as fast as the wind, which the wind behind could not cat… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Off he went as fast as the wind, which the wind behind could not catch the wind before, until he came to the second oldest brother's house. Who acts: man, wind. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 131

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Off he went as fast as the wind, which the wind behind could not catch the wind before, until he came to the second oldest brother's house.

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**Who acts:** man, wind · **What happens:** go, not catch, come · **To what, where:** wind, house

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:26:131
# text = Off he went as fast as the wind, which the wind behind could not catch the wind before, until he came to the second oldest brother's house.
1	Off	off	ADP	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	before	before	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	amod	_	_
27	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | man |  |  |  |  | as the wind; fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **catch** | could | the wind | the wind |  |  |  | before *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent which=Beneficiary wind=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | man |  |  | the second oldest brother's house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |

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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.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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