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title: ‘We have no time to lose--follow me at once,’ and they went on silen… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘We have no time to lose--follow me at once,’ and they went on silently and swiftly till they stopped at the door of a small house in which the priest lived. Who acts: We, senses, priest. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 76

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‘We have no time to lose--follow me at once,’ and they went on silently and swiftly till they stopped at the door of a small house in which the priest lived.

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**Who acts:** We, senses, priest · **What happens:** have, lose, follow, go on, stop, live · **To what, where:** me, door, small house

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, senses, priest), 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:pg3454:3:76
# text = ‘We have no time to lose--follow me at once,’ and they went on silently and swiftly till they stopped at the door of a small house in which the priest lived.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|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	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	19	conj	_	_
22	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	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 | We |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lose** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **follow** | infinitive | We *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme at once=Trajectory |
| 4 | **go on** | past | senses *= sens* |  |  |  |  | silently *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stop** | past | senses *= sens* |  |  | the door of a small house |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location |
| 6 | **live** | past | the priest |  |  | a small house |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |

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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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