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title: I do not know whether ladies thus indicate their interest in the occ… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I do not know whether ladies thus indicate their interest in the occupations of their casual neighbours at the hospitable board. Who acts: I, 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 7

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I do not know whether ladies thus indicate their interest in the occupations of their casual neighbours at the hospitable board.

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**Who acts:** I, ladies · **What happens:** not know, indicate, interest, occupy · **To what, where:** interest, occupations, casual neighbours

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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 (I, 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:pg3454:1:7
# text = I do not know whether ladies thus indicate their interest in the occupations of their casual neighbours at the hospitable board.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	indicate	indicate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	occupations	occupation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	casual	casual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	hospitable	hospitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **indicate** | present | ladies | ladies's interest |  | the occupations of ladies's casual neighbours at the hospitable board |  | thus *property* | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot interest=Topic |
| 3 | **interest** |  | ladies *= lady* |  |  |  |  |  | nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **occupy** |  |  | ladies's casual neighbours at the hospitable board |  |  |  |  | nom occupation «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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