The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 32

“No,” answered the youth; “but someone stood on the stairs up there just opposite the trap-door in the belfry, and because he wouldn’t answer me, or go away, I took him for a rogue and knocked him down.

Who acts: youth, someone, husband · What happens: answer, stand, not answer, go away, take, knock down · To what, where: stairs, youth, husband · 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 (youth, someone, husband), 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	_	2 No	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 youth	det
7	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 stood	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 stood	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 stood	cc
11	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 stood	nsubj
12	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 stairs	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stairs	det
15	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stood	obl
16	up	up	ADV	_	17 there	advmod
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 stood	advmod
18	just	just	ADV	_	23 door	advmod
19	opposite	opposite	ADP	_	23 door	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 door	det
21	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 door	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 trap	punct
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stood	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 belfry	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 belfry	det
26	belfry	belfry	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 door	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 answer	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 answer	cc
29	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 answer	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 answer	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 answer	aux
32	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 answer	advmod
33	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 stood	conj
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 answer	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 go	punct
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 go	cc
37	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 answer	conj
38	away	away	ADV	_	37 go	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 took	punct
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 took	nsubj
41	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 took	obj
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 rogue	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 rogue	det
45	rogue	rogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 took	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 knocked	cc
47	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 took	conj
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 knocked	obj
49	down	down	ADP	_	47 knocked	compound:prt
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the youth					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stand in a quote	past	someone			the stairs; there	opposite the trap door in the belfry	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stair=Location
3	not answer speech: assert in a quote	would	husband		the youth = youth			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality
4	go away in a quote	infinitive	husband not said here				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take in a quote	past	the youth = youth	husband			for a rogue	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for rogue=Beneficiary
6	knock down in a quote	past	the youth = youth not said here	husband				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=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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