The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 77

She was obliged to do so from a distance, her own country being a remote one, but she was well informed of all that went on and knew all about the Queen’s wicked designs.

Who acts: own country, that, Queen · What happens: oblige, do, be, inform, go on, know · To what, where: Queen, remote one

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (own country, that, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 obliged	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 obliged	aux:pass
3	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 obliged	xcomp
6	so	so	ADV	_	17 one	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 distance	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 distance	det
9	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 one	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 distance	punct
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 country	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 country	amod
13	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 one	nsubj
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 one	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 one	det
16	remote	remote	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 one	amod
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 informed	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 informed	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 informed	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 informed	aux:pass
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 informed	advmod
23	informed	inform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 obliged	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 all	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 went	obl
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 went	nsubj
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 informed	parataxis
28	on	on	ADV	_	27 went	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 knew	cc
30	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 went	conj
31	all	all	ADV	_	37 designs	advmod
32	about	about	ADP	_	37 designs	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Queen	det
34	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 designs	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 Queen	case
36	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 designs	amod
37	designs	design	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 knew	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	oblige	past · passive		Queen		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	do	to-infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	gerund	Queen's own country	a remote one	from a distance	tree rules
4	inform speech: other	past · passive		Queen	well property	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	go on	past	that		of all	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	know	past	that not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	design		the Queen			nom design «act transitive»: 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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