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title: To clear away any possible doubt, he showed the ruby which the Good… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 39

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To clear away any possible doubt, he showed the ruby which the Good Queen had given him in his childhood.

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**Who acts:** King, Good Queen · **What happens:** clear away, show, give · **To what, where:** possible doubt, ruby, King, childhood

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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.

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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:pg640:23:39
# text = To clear away any possible doubt, he showed the ruby which the Good Queen had given him in his childhood.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	clear	clear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
5	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ruby	ruby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Good	Good	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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 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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