The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 39
To clear away any possible doubt, he showed the ruby which the Good Queen had given him in his childhood.
Who acts: King, Good Queen · What happens: clear away, show, give · To what, where: possible doubt, ruby, King, childhood
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (King, Good Queen), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 clear | mark |
| 2 | clear | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 showed | advcl |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 clear | advmod |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 doubt | det |
| 5 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 doubt | amod |
| 6 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 clear | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 showed | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 showed | nsubj |
| 9 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ruby | det |
| 11 | ruby | ruby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 showed | obj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 given | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Queen | det |
| 14 | Good | Good | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Queen | compound |
| 15 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 given | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 given | aux |
| 17 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 ruby | acl:relcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 given | iobj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 childhood | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 21 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 given | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clear away | to-infinitive | King not said here | any possible doubt | away property | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent doubt=Source | |||
| 2 | show | past | King | the ruby | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ruby=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect | the Good Queen | the ruby | King | King's childhood | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient which=Theme |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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