The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 145

I must lose no time in getting rid of him.’

Who acts: I, time · What happens: lose, get

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, time), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lose	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj
6	in	in	SCONJ	_	7 getting	mark
7	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 time	acl
8	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 getting	xcomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rid	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lose	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 lose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	must	I				time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	gerund	no time not said here					rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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