The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 80

But the youth said: “No matter how difficult, I insist on learning it; why, that’s what I’ve set out to do.”

Who acts: youth, that · What happens: say, insist, learn, be, set out, do · To what, where: matter, 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 (youth, that), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 difficult	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 difficult	punct
7	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 matter	det
8	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 difficult	nsubj
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 difficult	advmod
10	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 insist	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 insist	nsubj
13	insist	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 difficult	parataxis
14	on	on	SCONJ	_	15 learning	mark
15	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 insist	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 learning	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 why	punct
18	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 difficult	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 what	punct
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 what	nsubj
21	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 what	cop
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 said	ccomp
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 set	nsubj
24	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 set	aux:pass
25	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 what	acl:relcl
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 set	compound:prt
27	to	to	PART	_	28 do	mark
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 set	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the youth		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	insist speech: other in a quote	present	the youth = youth		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	learn in a quote	gerund	the youth = youth not said here	matter	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	is a in a quote	present	that		tree rules
5	set out in a quote	present · passive		the youth = youth	tree rules
6	do in a quote	to-infinitive			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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