The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 7

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 · What happens: not know, indicate, interest, occupy · To what, where: interest, occupations, casual neighbours

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.

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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	8 indicate	mark
6	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 indicate	nsubj
7	thus	thus	ADV	_	8 indicate	advmod
8	indicate	indicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	ccomp
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 interest	nmod:poss
10	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 indicate	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 occupations	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 occupations	det
13	occupations	occupation	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 indicate	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 neighbours	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 neighbours	nmod:poss
16	casual	casual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 neighbours	amod
17	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 occupations	nmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	21 board	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 board	det
20	hospitable	hospitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 board	amod
21	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 neighbours	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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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