Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 34

‘No, I don’t know,’ replied the boy, ‘but someone was standing by the sounding hole on the other side of the steps, and as he would neither give an answer nor go away, I took him for a scoundrel, and threw him downstairs.

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

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, someone, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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