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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 81

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He left the landlord no peace till he told him that in the neighborhood stood a haunted castle, where one could easily learn to shudder if one only kept watch in it for three nights.

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**Who acts:** body, one · **What happens:** leave, tell, stand, haunt, learn, keep · **To what, where:** landlord, father, haunted castle, neighborhood, shudder, watch · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (body, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg503:13:81
# text = He left the landlord no peace till he told him that in the neighborhood stood a haunted castle, where one could easily learn to shudder if one only kept watch in it for three nights.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	landlord	landlord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
15	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	haunted	haunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
21	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	shudder	shudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
31	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | body | the landlord |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent landlord=Theme peace=Attribute |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | body |  | father |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **stand** | past | body *not said here* | a haunted castle |  | the neighborhood |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent castle=Theme in neighborhood=Destination |
| 4 | **haunt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **learn** | could | one | shudder |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shudder=Topic |
| 6 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | one | watch |  | landlord | night |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme in it=Location |

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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.

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**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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