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title: She lost no time in telling Aladdin, bidding him make haste. — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She lost no time in telling Aladdin, bidding him make haste. Who acts: woman, time. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 123

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She lost no time in telling Aladdin, bidding him make haste.

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**Who acts:** woman, time · **What happens:** lose, tell, bid, make · **To what, where:** Aladdin, haste · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, time), 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:pg503:12:123
# text = She lost no time in telling Aladdin, bidding him make haste.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|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	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bidding	bid	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	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 | woman |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | no time *not said here* |  | Aladdin |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent aladdin=Recipient |
| 3 | **bid** | gerund | no time *not said here* | Aladdin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive | no time *not said here* | haste |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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