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description: 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. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, par
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 58

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg640:20:58
# text = 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.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	further	further	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	delayed	delay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	baffle	baffle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
34	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
35	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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 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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