--- title: It went against all his ideas as a knight to do anything a lady begg… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: It went against all his ideas as a knight to do anything a lady begged him not to do; but, as he hesitated, a voice in his ear said: Who acts: way, lady, King, voice. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/7/70/) [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/) / 70 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 70 It went against all his ideas as a knight to do anything a lady begged him not to do; but, as he hesitated, a voice in his ear said: **Who acts:** way, lady, King, voice · **What happens:** go, do, beg, not do, hesitate, say · **To what, where:** ideas, anything, King · **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 (way, lady, King, voice), 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:pg503:7:70 # text = It went against all his ideas as a knight to do anything a lady begged him not to do; but, as he hesitated, a voice in his ear said: 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 against against ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 6 det:predet _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 12 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 obj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 hesitated hesitate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 33 : : PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | way | | | King's ideas | | as a knight | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against idea=Location | | 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | way *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | | 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | a lady | | King | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a lady *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hesitate** | past | King | | | | | | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a voice in King's ear | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/7/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/7/71/) - ↑ back to [The Yellow Dwarf, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/7/)