The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 9
All the brightness outside would help to drive away your cares, O Queen.’
Who acts: brightness, O Queen, your · What happens: help, drive away, care · To what, where: O Queen, cares
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brightness, O Queen, your), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 brightness | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brightness | det |
| 3 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 help | nsubj |
| 4 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 3 brightness | advmod |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 help | aux |
| 6 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 drive | mark |
| 8 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 help | xcomp |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 drive | advmod |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cares | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cares | care | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drive | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Queen | punct |
| 13 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Queen | compound |
| 14 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 help | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 help | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | would | all brightness | O Queen | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drive away | to-infinitive | O Queen not said here | your cares | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme care=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | care | your | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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