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title: He lost no time in hastening back to his native town, and his parent… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He lost no time in hastening back to his native town, and his parents were very ready to recognise the handsome, well-made young man as their long-lost son. Who acts: Jem, time, parents. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, with its dependency
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 118

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He lost no time in hastening back to his native town, and his parents were very ready to recognise the handsome, well-made young man as their long-lost son.

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**Who acts:** Jem, time, parents · **What happens:** lose, hasten back, be, recognise, make · **To what, where:** native town, handsome, young man

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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 (Jem, time, parents), 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:pg641:28:118
# text = He lost no time in hastening back to his native town, and his parents were very ready to recognise the handsome, well-made young man as their long-lost son.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|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	hastening	hasten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	recognise	recognise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
27	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
31	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | Jem |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hasten back** | gerund | no time *not said here* |  |  | Jem's native town |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to town=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | Jem's parents |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **recognise** | to-infinitive | Jem's parents *not said here* | the handsome |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer handsome=Stimulus |
| 5 | **make** | participle | Jem's parents *not said here* | young man |  |  |  | as parents's long lost son; well *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset man=Product |
| 6 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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