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title: As for the maiden, no sooner was her deluded lover fairly out of sig… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As for the maiden, no sooner was her deluded lover fairly out of sight than she began to prepare for flight. Who acts: pretty. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 52

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As for the maiden, no sooner was her deluded lover fairly out of sight than she began to prepare for flight.

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**Who acts:** pretty · **What happens:** delude, be, begin, prepare · **To what, where:** deluded lover, sight

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretty), 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:pg3282:32:52
# text = As for the maiden, no sooner was her deluded lover fairly out of sight than she began to prepare for flight.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	deluded	delude	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **delude** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | pretty's deluded lover |  | sight |  | as the maiden; soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **begin** | past | pretty | sight *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **prepare** | to-infinitive | pretty *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for flight | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for flight=Beneficiary |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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