--- title: A carrier who was walking behind him heard these words, and asked hi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/68/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Lea…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/) / 68 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:13:68 # text = A carrier who was walking behind him heard these words, and asked him: “Who are you” “I don’t know,” said the youth. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 carrier carrier NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 behind behind ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 10 det _ _ 10 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 16 “ " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ” " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 21 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 24 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ” " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 28 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/69/) - ↑ 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/)