--- title: “No,” answered the youth; “but someone stood on the stairs up there… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:13:32 # text = “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. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 nsubj _ _ 12 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 up up ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ _ 18 just just ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 19 opposite opposite ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 belfry belfry NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 because because SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 32 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 34 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 38 away away ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 42 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 for for ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 rogue rogue NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 knocked knock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 conj _ _ 48 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 obj _ _ 49 down down ADP RP _ 47 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/33/) - ↑ back to [The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/)