--- title: “Where are you going, Prince?” they said; “it is our duty to guard t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Where are you going, Prince?” they said; “it is our duty to guard this place, and if we let you pass great misfortunes will happen to you and to us. Who acts: you, Nymphs, way, we. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/7/66/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Yellow Dwarf, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/7/) / 66 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 66 “Where are you going, Prince?” they said; “it is our duty to guard this place, and if we let you pass great misfortunes will happen to you and to us. **Who acts:** you, Nymphs, way, we, great misfortunes · **What happens:** go, say, be, guard, let, pass · **To what, where:** Prince, duty, place, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Nymphs, way, we), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:7:66 # text = “Where are you going, Prince?” they said; “it is our duty to guard this place, and if we let you pass great misfortunes will happen to you and to us. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 5 advmod _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 duty duty NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 ccomp _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 guard guard VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl _ _ 20 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 det _ _ 21 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 let let VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 misfortunes misfortune NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 31 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 ccomp _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you | Prince | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Nymphs *= nymph* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | way | our duty | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **guard** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Nymphs *= nymph* *not said here* | this place | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Beneficiary | | 5 | **let** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | we | you | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **pass** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **happen** *in a quote* | future | great misfortunes | | you | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/7/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/7/67/) - ↑ back to [The Yellow Dwarf, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/7/)