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title: The Queen’s neck-handkerchief and my sword, which are worth their we… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, with its 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 42

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:4:42
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Ambassador	Ambassador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
35	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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