Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 22

Why what has a poor old man like you to play for?"

What happens: have, play · To what, where: poor old man

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 has	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 man	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 play	mark
11	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 man	acl
12	for	for	ADP	_	11 play	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present		a poor old man				like you	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
2	play	to-infinitive		a poor old man not said here					vn performance-26.7-1 «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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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