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title: Do ladies put these questions to the men--lawyers, dentists, clergym… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Do ladies put these questions to the men--lawyers, dentists, clergymen, and so forth--who happen to sit next them at dinner parties? Who acts: 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 6

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Do ladies put these questions to the men--lawyers, dentists, clergymen, and so forth--who happen to sit next them at dinner parties?

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**Who acts:** ladies · **What happens:** put, happen, sit · **To what, where:** questions, dinner parties

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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 (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:pg3454:1:6
# text = Do ladies put these questions to the men--lawyers, dentists, clergymen, and so forth--who happen to sit next them at dinner parties?
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	aux	_	_
2	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	lawyers	lawyer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	dentists	dentist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	clergymen	clergyman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	happen	happen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	next	next	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | infinitive · do-support | ladies | this questions |  |  |  | to the men and lawyers and dentists and clergymen | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal |
| 2 | **happen** | present |  |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | dinner parties |  | next ladies *= lady* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent next they=Location |

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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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