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title: He lost no time in sending for the queen and for all his court, and… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He lost no time in sending for the queen and for all his court, and when all were assembled he made a sign, and Labakan was led in. Who acts: choice. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 73

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He lost no time in sending for the queen and for all his court, and when all were assembled he made a sign, and Labakan was led in.

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**Who acts:** choice · **What happens:** lose, send, assemble, make, lead in · **To what, where:** all, sign, Labakan

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (choice), 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:pg2435:35:73
# text = He lost no time in sending for the queen and for all his court, and when all were assembled he made a sign, and Labakan was led in.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | choice |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **send** | gerund | choice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the queen and choice's court | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **assemble** | past · passive |  | all |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past | choice | a sign |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product |
| 5 | **lead in** | past · passive |  | Labakan |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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