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title: Therefore lose no time in setting in order the affairs of your kingd… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore lose no time in setting in order the affairs of your kingdom and go in search of your wife. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 93

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Therefore lose no time in setting in order the affairs of your kingdom and go in search of your wife.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** lose, go, search · **To what, where:** affairs, setting, search, wife

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg3027:28:93
# text = Therefore lose no time in setting in order the affairs of your kingdom and go in search of your wife.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	lose	lose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|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	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	setting	setting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | imperative | you *not said here* | the affairs of your kingdom |  | setting | time | in order; therefore *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affair=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | search of your wife |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location |
| 3 | **search** |  |  | your wife |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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