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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 83

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She lost no time in getting herself ready, and did not take long over her journey; and as she was passing down the chief street of the town a noble lady saw her out of the window, and, struck by her sad face, said to her: ‘Where are you going all alone, my pretty girl?’

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**Who acts:** woman, time, you · **What happens:** lose, get, not take, pass down, see, strike · **To what, where:** woman, journey, chief street, window, pretty girl · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (woman, time, you), 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:pg5615:18:83
# text = She lost no time in getting herself ready, and did not take long over her journey; and as she was passing down the chief street of the town a noble lady saw her out of the window, and, struck by her sad face, said to her: ‘Where are you going all alone, my pretty girl?’
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	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
14	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
34	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
35	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	_
44	by	by	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
46	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	57	punct	_	_
53	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	57	advmod	_	_
55	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
56	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	49	ccomp	_	_
58	all	all	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
59	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
61	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	63	nmod:poss	_	_
62	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	57	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 | **get** | gerund | no time *not said here* | woman |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **take** | past · do-support | woman *not said here* |  |  | woman's journey |  | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pass down** | past · progressive | woman | the chief street of the town |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient street=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | past |  | woman |  | the window |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 6 | **strike** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by woman's sad face | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by face=Location |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woman *not said here* |  | woman |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to she=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 8 | **go** | present · progressive | you | my pretty girl |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **journey** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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