The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 12

People are too apt to reproach those who beg with being idle, but give themselves no concern to put them in the way of getting business to do, or considering whether they are able to do it, which is not charity.

Who acts: People, way · What happens: be, reproach, beg, give, put, get · To what, where: those, people, way, business, charity

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, way), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 apt	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 apt	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 apt	advmod
4	apt	apt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 reproach	mark
6	reproach	reproach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 apt	csubj
7	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 reproach	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 beg	nsubj
9	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 those	acl:relcl
10	with	with	SCONJ	_	12 idle	mark
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 idle	cop
12	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beg	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 give	cc
15	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 apt	conj
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 give	obj
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 concern	det
18	concern	concern	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 put	mark
20	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 concern	acl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 put	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 way	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 way	det
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obl
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 getting	mark
26	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 way	acl
27	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 getting	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 do	mark
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 business	acl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 considering	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 considering	cc
32	considering	consider	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 give	advcl
33	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	36 able	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 able	nsubj
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 able	cop
36	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 considering	ccomp
37	to	to	PART	_	38 do	mark
38	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 able	xcomp
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 do	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 charity	punct
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 charity	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 charity	cop
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 charity	advmod
44	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 do	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 apt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	People			apt property	tree rules
2	reproach	to-infinitive		those			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
3	beg speech: request	present					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
4	is	gerund				idle property	tree rules
5	give	present	People not said here	people			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient concern=Theme
6	put	to-infinitive	People not said here	people	the way		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in way=Destination
7	get	gerund	the way not said here	business			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer business=Stimulus
8	do	to-infinitive	the way not said here	business not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	consider	gerund	People not said here				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
10	is	present	people			able property	tree rules
11	do	to-infinitive	people not said here	business			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
12	not is a	present		charity			tree rules

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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