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title: It has been suggested to the Editor that children and parents and gu… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It has been suggested to the Editor that children and parents and guardians would like ‘The Grey True Ghost-Story Book.’ Who acts: children. 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 55

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It has been suggested to the Editor that children and parents and guardians would like ‘The Grey True Ghost-Story Book.’

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** suggest, like · **To what, where:** Harding, Editor

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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 (children), 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:pg3454:1:55
# text = It has been suggested to the Editor that children and parents and guardians would like ‘The Grey True Ghost-Story Book.’
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Editor	editor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	guardians	guardian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
18	Grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
19	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
20	Ghost	Ghost	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present · perfect · passive |  | Harding | the Editor |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to editor=Recipient |
| 2 | **like** | would | children and parents and guardians | the Editor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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