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title: As may be imagined, he lost no time in setting out to deliver Rosali… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As may be imagined, he lost no time in setting out to deliver Rosalie, and travelled so fast that he soon arrived at the forest, in the midst of which she lay a captive. Who acts: spite, time, Rosalie. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, with its de
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 82

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As may be imagined, he lost no time in setting out to deliver Rosalie, and travelled so fast that he soon arrived at the forest, in the midst of which she lay a captive.

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**Who acts:** spite, time, Rosalie · **What happens:** imagine, lose, set out, deliver, travel, arrive · **To what, where:** Rosalie, forest, captive

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (spite, time, Rosalie), 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:pg640:16:82
# text = As may be imagined, he lost no time in setting out to deliver Rosalie, and travelled so fast that he soon arrived at the forest, in the midst of which she lay a captive.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	setting	set	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
15	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obl	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	captive	captive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | may · passive | spite *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF» |
| 2 | **lose** | past | spite |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **set out** | gerund | no time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **deliver** | to-infinitive | no time *not said here* | Rosalie |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rosalie=Patient |
| 5 | **travel** | past | spite *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **arrive** | past | spite |  |  | the forest |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **lie** | past | Rosalie | a captive |  |  |  | of the midst | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location captive=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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