--- title: ‘If that is all that is wanted,’ answered the youth, ‘it is easily d… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: ‘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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2591:57:62 # text = ‘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. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 3 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 8 det:predet _ _ 6 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 wanted want VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 11 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 18 easily easily ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 25 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 shudder shudder VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 28 as as ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 30 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 36 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 talers taler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/57/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/57/63/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/57/)