The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 51
“If that’s all I have to do,” answered the youth, “it’s easily done; but if I learn to shudder so quickly, then you shall have my fifty dollars.
Who acts: youth, you · What happens: have, do, answer, learn, shudder · To what, where: tree, fifty dollars · 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 (youth, 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 | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 all | mark |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 all | nsubj |
| 4 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 all | cop |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 all | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 have | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 all | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 all | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 youth | det |
| 14 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 done | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 done | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 done | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 done | aux |
| 19 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 20 done | advmod |
| 20 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 answered | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 have | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 have | cc |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 learn | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 learn | nsubj |
| 25 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 have | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 shudder | mark |
| 27 | shudder | shudder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 learn | xcomp |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 quickly | advmod |
| 29 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 27 shudder | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 learn | punct |
| 31 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 have | advmod |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 have | nsubj |
| 33 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 have | aux |
| 34 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 answered | conj |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 dollars | nmod:poss |
| 36 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 dollars | nummod |
| 37 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 have | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | the youth = youth | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | the youth = youth not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the youth | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present · passive | tree | easily property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | learn a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the youth = youth | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | shudder in a quote | to-infinitive | the youth = youth not said here | quickly property | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | have in a quote | shall | you | my fifty dollars | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=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.
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