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title: All the brightness outside would help to drive away your cares, O Qu… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All the brightness outside would help to drive away your cares, O Queen.’ Who acts: brightness, O Queen, your. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 9

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All the brightness outside would help to drive away your cares, O Queen.’

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**Who acts:** brightness, O Queen, your · **What happens:** help, drive away, care · **To what, where:** O Queen, cares

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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.

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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:pg640:29:9
# text = All the brightness outside would help to drive away your cares, O Queen.’
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	cares	care	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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