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title: ‘I am informed,’ she cried, ‘that some ill-disposed people have rais… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘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. 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
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 26

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‘I am informed,’ she cried, ‘that some ill-disposed people have raised up an impostor in the hopes of dethroning you.

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**Who acts:** I, Queen, disposed people, hopes · **What happens:** be, cry, dispose, raise up, dethrone · **To what, where:** impostor, hopes, you

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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 (I, Queen, disposed people, hopes), 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:pg640:23:26
# text = ‘I am informed,’ she cried, ‘that some ill-disposed people have raised up an impostor in the hopes of dethroning you.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	informed	informed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
13	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	disposed	dispose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	impostor	impostor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	dethroning	dethrone	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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