The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 46

“Learn what you will,” said the father, “it’s all one to me.

Who acts: father, shudder · What happens: learn, say, be · To what, where: one, father · 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 (father, shudder), 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	_	2 Learn	punct
2	Learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 Learn	obj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 will	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Learn	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Learn	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 father	det
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 one	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 one	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 one	nsubj
14	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 one	cop
15	all	all	ADV	_	16 one	advmod
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 father	appos
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 one	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	learn in a quote	infinitive					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the father				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	shudder	one	the father = father	all property	tree rules

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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