--- title: "Not so fast, my master," rejoined the Prince; "I must first beg tha… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Not so fast, my master," rejoined the Prince; "I must first beg that you will restore to life all whom you have thus imprisoned." Who acts: Magician, you. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/70/) [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/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/) / 70 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 70 "Not so fast, my master," rejoined the Prince; "I must first beg that you will restore to life all whom you have thus imprisoned." **Who acts:** Magician, you · **What happens:** rejoin, beg, restore, imprison · **To what, where:** Prince, life, you This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Magician, you), 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:pg7128:10:70 # text = "Not so fast, my master," rejoined the Prince; "I must first beg that you will restore to life all whom you have thus imprisoned." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 rejoined rejoin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 18 advmod _ _ 18 beg beg VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 restore restore VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 24 nmod _ _ 26 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 obl _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 thus thus ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 imprisoned imprison VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rejoin** | past | | the Prince | | | | fast *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient | | 2 | **beg** *speech: request* *in a quote* | must | the Magician *= magician* | | | | | first *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **restore** *in a quote* | future | you | | life all | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to life=Recipient | | 4 | **imprison** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | you | | | | thus *property* | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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/pg7128/10/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/71/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/)