The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 42

The Queen’s neck-handkerchief and my sword, which are worth their weight in gold, are also missing, and, what is worst of all, the Ambassador Fanfaronade is nowhere to be found.

Who acts: neck handkerchief · What happens: be · To what, where: gold, Ambassador Fanfaronade

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neck handkerchief), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 handkerchief	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Queen	case
4	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 handkerchief	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 neck	punct
6	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 missing	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sword	cc
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sword	nmod:poss
9	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 handkerchief	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 worth	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 worth	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 worth	cop
13	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 handkerchief	conj
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 weight	nmod:poss
15	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 worth	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 gold	case
17	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 worth	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 handkerchief	punct
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 missing	cop
20	also	also	ADV	_	21 missing	advmod
21	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 worst	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 worst	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 worst	punct
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 worst	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 worst	cop
27	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 missing	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 all	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 worst	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 found	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Fanfaronade	det
32	Ambassador	Ambassador	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Fanfaronade	compound
33	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 found	nsubj:pass
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 found	cop
35	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	38 found	advmod
36	to	to	PART	_	38 found	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 found	aux:pass
38	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 worst	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 missing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Queen's neck handkerchief and my sword		gold	worth property	tree rules
2	is	present	the Queen's neck handkerchief and my sword			missing property	tree rules
3	is	present				of all; bad property	tree rules
4	is	present · passive		the Ambassador Fanfaronade		find, nowhere property	tree rules

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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