--- title: He stopped the Prince and asked him in a harsh voice: ‘Are you the m… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He stopped the Prince and asked him in a harsh voice: ‘Are you the man who has just fed my body-guard?’ Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/90/) [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 Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/) / 90 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 90 He stopped the Prince and asked him in a harsh voice: ‘Are you the man who has just fed my body-guard?’ **Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** stop, ask, feed · **To what, where:** Prince, harsh voice, you This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (Prince), 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:pg640:30:90 # text = He stopped the Prince and asked him in a harsh voice: ‘Are you the man who has just fed my body-guard?’ 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 harsh harsh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 13 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 just just ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 23 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 guard guard NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ? ? PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | past | Prince | the Prince | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector prince=Eventuality | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Prince *not said here* | | Prince | a harsh voice | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 3 | **feed** | present · perfect · passive | | you | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient guard=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 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 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/89/) - next →: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/91/) - ↑ back to [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/)