The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 83

But I have no time to lose; to-morrow I must begin to hunt for the precious plants.’

Who acts: I · What happens: have, lose, begin, hunt

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 have	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lose	mark
7	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 time	acl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 begin	punct
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 morrow	case
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 to	punct
11	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 begin	obl
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 begin	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 begin	aux
14	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hunt	mark
16	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 begin	xcomp
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 plants	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 plants	det
19	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 plants	amod
20	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hunt	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	lose	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	begin	must	I		to morrow	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	hunt	to-infinitive	I not said here		for the precious plants	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for plant=Theme

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.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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