The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 26
‘I am informed,’ she cried, ‘that some ill-disposed people have raised up an impostor in the hopes of dethroning you.
Who acts: I, Queen, disposed people, hopes · What happens: be, cry, dispose, raise up, dethrone · To what, where: impostor, hopes, you
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 (I, Queen, disposed people, hopes), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 informed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 informed | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 informed | cop |
| 4 | informed | informed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 informed | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 informed | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 informed | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 raised | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 raised | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 raised | mark |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 people | det |
| 13 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 disposed | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 ill | punct |
| 15 | disposed | dispose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 people | amod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 raised | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 raised | aux |
| 18 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 cried | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 raised | compound:prt |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 impostor | det |
| 21 | impostor | impostor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 raised | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 hopes | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hopes | det |
| 24 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 raised | obl |
| 25 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 dethroning | mark |
| 26 | dethroning | dethrone | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 hopes | acl |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 dethroning | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 informed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | informed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Queen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dispose | participle | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | raise up | present · perfect | some disposed people | a impostor | the hopes | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent impostor=Theme in hope=Destination | |||
| 5 | dethrone | gerund | the hopes not said here | you | tree rules |
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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