The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 68

A carrier who was walking behind him heard these words, and asked him: “Who are you” “I don’t know,” said the youth.

Who acts: carrier, you, youth · What happens: walk, hear, ask, be, not know, say · To what, where: words, carrier, youth · 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 (carrier, you, youth), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 carrier	det
2	carrier	carrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 walking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walking	aux
5	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 carrier	acl:relcl
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 walking	obl
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 words	det
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 heard	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 asked	cc
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	iobj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
17	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 said	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 Who	cop
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 Who	nsubj
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 Who	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 know	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 know	nsubj
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 know	aux
24	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 know	advmod
25	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 Who	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 know	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 know	punct
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 youth	det
30	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 said	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	a carrier			behind carrier	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Trajectory
2	hear	past	a carrier	this words			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
3	ask speech: ask	past			carrier		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	is a in a quote	present	you				tree rules
5	not know in a quote	present · do-support	the youth = youth				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	say speech: assert	past		the youth			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic

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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