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title: But I have no time to lose; to-morrow I must begin to hunt for the p… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But I have no time to lose; to-morrow I must begin to hunt for the precious plants.’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 83

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But I have no time to lose; to-morrow I must begin to hunt for the precious plants.’

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** have, lose, begin, hunt

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg3454:25:83
# text = But I have no time to lose; to-morrow I must begin to hunt for the precious plants.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lose** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **begin** | must | I |  |  |  |  | to morrow | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the precious plants | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for plant=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 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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