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title: The faithful servant departed on his errand without losing any time,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The faithful servant departed on his errand without losing any time, and again he knocked at the door of the little house and begged for some water. Who acts: faithful servant. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 14

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The faithful servant departed on his errand without losing any time, and again he knocked at the door of the little house and begged for some water.

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**Who acts:** faithful servant · **What happens:** depart, lose, knock, beg · **To what, where:** faithful servant, errand

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faithful servant), 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:pg5615:18:14
# text = The faithful servant departed on his errand without losing any time, and again he knocked at the door of the little house and begged for some water.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
4	departed	depart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	errand	errand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	begged	beg	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depart** | participle |  | the faithful servant *not said here* |  | servant's errand |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | gerund |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **knock** | past | the faithful servant |  |  |  | again | at the door of the little house | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | participle | the faithful servant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for some water | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for water=Topic |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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