--- title: As she was about to answer Prince Alphege, who had heard all, came f… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As she was about to answer Prince Alphege, who had heard all, came forward and said, ‘It is from me you must ask an explanation, brother.’ Who acts: door, Alphege, explanation, me. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, with its dependency tree and the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/34/) [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 Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Glass Mountain(16), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/) / 34 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 34 As she was about to answer Prince Alphege, who had heard all, came forward and said, ‘It is from me you must ask an explanation, brother.’ **Who acts:** door, Alphege, explanation, me · **What happens:** be, answer, hear, come forward, say, ask · **To what, where:** Alphege, all, explanation · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (door, Alphege, explanation, me), 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:pg640:23:34 # text = As she was about to answer Prince Alphege, who had heard all, came forward and said, ‘It is from me you must ask an explanation, brother.’ 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 about about ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 advcl _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:desc _ _ 8 Alphege Alphege PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 15 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 forward forward ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 20 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 explanation explanation NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | door | | | | | about *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | door *not said here* | | Alphege Prince | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent alphege=Eventuality | | 3 | **hear** | past · perfect | Alphege Prince | all | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus | | 4 | **come forward** | past | | | | | | forward *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **is** | present | explanation | | | | | from me | tree rules | | 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | must | me | a explanation and brother | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent explanation=Recipient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/35/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/)