--- title: “If that’s all he wants,” said the sexton, “I can teach him that; ju… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “If that’s all he wants,” said the sexton, “I can teach him that; just you send him to me, I’ll soon polish him up.” Who acts: father, sexton, you. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Lea…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/) / 15 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 15 “If that’s all he wants,” said the sexton, “I can teach him that; just you send him to me, I’ll soon polish him up.” **Who acts:** father, sexton, you · **What happens:** want, say, teach, send, 'll, polish up · **To what, where:** that, father, sexton · **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, sexton, 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:pg503:13:15 # text = “If that’s all he wants,” said the sexton, “I can teach him that; just you send him to me, I’ll soon polish him up.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 10 ccomp _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 sexton sexton NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 teach teach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 just just ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 send send VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ’ll 'll VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 30 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 31 polish polish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 up up ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ” " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** *in a quote* | present | father | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the sexton | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **teach** *speech: other* *in a quote* | can | the sexton *= sexton* | that | father | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient that=Topic | | 4 | **send** *in a quote* | present | you | father | the sexton *= sexton* | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to i=Destination | | 5 | **'ll** *in a quote* | present | the sexton *= sexton* | | | | | soon *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **polish up** *in a quote* | present | | | father | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/16/) - ↑ back to [The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/)