Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 62

‘If that is all that is wanted,’ answered the youth, ‘it is easily done; but if I learn how to shudder as fast as that, you shall have my fifty talers.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, answer, do, learn, shudder, have · To what, where: that, youth, tree, fifty talers

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth 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 (I, you), 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	_	11 answered	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 wanted	mark
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 wanted	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wanted	cop
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 wanted	det:predet
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 wanted	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wanted	aux:pass
8	wanted	want	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 answered	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wanted	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 youth	det
13	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 done	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 done	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 done	nsubj:pass
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 done	aux:pass
18	easily	easily	ADV	_	19 done	advmod
19	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 answered	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 have	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 have	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 learn	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 learn	nsubj
24	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 have	advcl
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 shudder	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 shudder	mark
27	shudder	shudder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 learn	xcomp
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 fast	advmod
29	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 shudder	advmod
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 that	case
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 fast	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 learn	punct
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 have	nsubj
34	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 have	aux
35	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 answered	conj
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 talers	nmod:poss
37	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 talers	nummod
38	talers	taler	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 have	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		that	want property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past		the youth		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent youth=Eventuality
3	do	present · passive		tree	easily property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	learn a condition, not said to happen	present	I			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	shudder	to-infinitive	I not said here		fast property	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	have	shall	you	my fifty talers		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taler=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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