The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 22

“Answer,” cried the youth, “or begone; you have no business here at this hour of the night.”

Who acts: Answer, youth, you · What happens: cry, begone, have · To what, where: youth, business · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out 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 (Answer, youth, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Answer	punct
2	Answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Answer	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Answer	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 youth	det
7	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 begone	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 begone	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 begone	cc
11	begone	begone	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 youth	acl:relcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	conj
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 business	det
16	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 have	advmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 hour	case
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 hour	det
20	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 night	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 night	det
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hour	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Answer	the youth			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Topic
2	begone in a quote	infinitive	the youth not said here				tree rules
3	have in a quote	present	you	no business	here	hour	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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