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title: Is it possible you don’t know that when we leave home we always hang… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Is it possible you don’t know that when we leave home we always hang up our hearts on trees, to prevent their being troublesome? Who acts: course, you, we. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 66

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Is it possible you don’t know that when we leave home we always hang up our hearts on trees, to prevent their being troublesome?

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**Who acts:** course, you, we · **What happens:** be, not know, leave, hang up, prevent · **To what, where:** home, hearts, trees · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (course, you, we), 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:pg3454:5:66
# text = Is it possible you don’t know that when we leave home we always hang up our hearts on trees, to prevent their being troublesome?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
12	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	15	advmod	_	_
15	hang	hang	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	cop	_	_
26	troublesome	troublesome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | course |  |  |  |  | possible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **leave** | present | we | home |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
| 4 | **hang up** | present | we | our hearts |  | trees |  | always *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location |
| 5 | **prevent** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 6 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | troublesome *property* | 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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