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title: Let ladies and gentlemen think of this when they sit down to write f… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Let ladies and gentlemen think of this when they sit down to write fairy tales, and have them nicely typed, and send them to Messrs. Who acts: you, ladies. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 38

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Let ladies and gentlemen think of this when they sit down to write fairy tales, and have them nicely typed, and send them to Messrs.

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**Who acts:** you, ladies · **What happens:** let, think, sit down, write, have, type · **To what, where:** fairy tales, Tales, Messrs

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ladies), 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:pg3454:1:38
# text = Let ladies and gentlemen think of this when they sit down to write fairy tales, and have them nicely typed, and send them to Messrs.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	nicely	nicely	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	typed	type	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Messrs	Messrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | ladies and gentlemen |  |  |  |  | of this | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sit down** | present | ladies *= lady* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **write** | to-infinitive | ladies *= lady* *not said here* | fairy tales |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | present | ladies *= lady* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **type** | past | ladies *= lady* |  |  |  |  | nicely *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **send** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Tales *= tale* | Messrs |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to messrs=Destination |

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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 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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