The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 38

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 · What happens: let, think, sit down, write, have, type · To what, where: fairy tales, Tales, Messrs

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 think	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 gentlemen	cc
4	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ladies	conj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	parataxis
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 think	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 sit	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sit	nsubj
10	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 think	advcl
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 sit	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 write	mark
13	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sit	advcl
14	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tales	compound
15	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 write	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 have	cc
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sit	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 typed	nsubj
20	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	21 typed	advmod
21	typed	type	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 have	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 send	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 send	cc
24	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 send	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 Messrs	case
27	Messrs	Messrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 send	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	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

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.

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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