The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 82

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 · What happens: imagine, lose, set out, deliver, travel, arrive · To what, where: Rosalie, forest, captive

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.

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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 imagined	mark
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 imagined	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 imagined	aux:pass
4	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lost	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 imagined	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lost	nsubj
7	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obj
10	in	in	SCONJ	_	11 setting	mark
11	setting	set	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 time	acl
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 setting	compound:prt
13	to	to	PART	_	14 deliver	mark
14	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 setting	advcl
15	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 deliver	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 travelled	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 travelled	cc
18	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lost	conj
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 fast	advmod
20	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 travelled	advmod
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 arrived	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 arrived	nsubj
23	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 arrived	advmod
24	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 travelled	advcl
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 forest	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 forest	det
27	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 arrived	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 midst	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 midst	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 midst	det
31	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 arrived	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 which	case
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 lay	obl
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 lay	nsubj
35	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 midst	acl:relcl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 captive	det
37	captive	captive	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lay	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, 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

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 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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