--- title: “If that’s all I have to do,” answered the youth, “it’s easily done;… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “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. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/51/) [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/) / 51 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:13:51 # text = “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. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 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 12 nsubj _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 12 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 “ " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 easily easily ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 shudder shudder VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 31 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 dollars dollar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/52/) - ↑ 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/)