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

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg640:22:77
# text = 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.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	remote	remote	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	informed	inform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	obl	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
28	on	on	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
31	all	all	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
32	about	about	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	designs	design	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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