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title: So he waved his hand and set out on his journey, and the wind was no… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 15

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg3454:9:15
# text = 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.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	swifter	swifter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	30	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:unmarked	_	_
30	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	raced	race	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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:** «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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