Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 31

"No," answered the boy; "but there was someone standing on the steps who would not give any answer, nor go away, so I took him for a thief and threw him downstairs.

Who acts: boy, someone, steps · What happens: answer, be, stand, not give, go away, take · To what, where: answer, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, someone, steps), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 was	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 was	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 was	cc
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
13	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 was	nsubj
14	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 someone	acl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 steps	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 steps	det
17	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 standing	obl
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 give	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 give	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 give	advmod
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 steps	acl:relcl
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 answer	det
23	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
25	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	26 go	cc
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 give	conj
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 go	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 took	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	31 took	advmod
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 took	nsubj
31	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 took	obj
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 thief	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 thief	det
35	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 took	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 threw	cc
37	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 took	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 threw	obj
39	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	_	37 threw	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the boy				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	be in a quote	past	someone		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stand in a quote	gerund				on the steps	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location
4	not give in a quote	would	the steps	any answer			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
5	go away in a quote	infinitive	the steps not said here			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	take in a quote	past	the boy = boy	boy		for a thief	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for thief=Beneficiary
7	throw in a quote	past	the boy = boy not said here	boy		downstairs property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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