Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 69

"Would it be asking too much," he went on to the beggar, "to know who you are at all, or where you come from, or why you take a pleasure in plaguing a poor old man like me?"

Who acts: sport, teller, you · What happens: ask, go on, know, be, come, take · To what, where: much, all, pleasure, poor old man · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (sport, teller, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 asking	punct
2	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 asking	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asking	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 asking	aux
5	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 asking	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 asking	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asking	conj
12	on	on	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 beggar	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 beggar	det
15	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 asking	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 know	mark
19	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 asking	conj
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	19 know	ccomp
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 who	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 who	cop
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 all	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 who	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 come	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 come	cc
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 come	advmod
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 come	nsubj
29	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 asking	parataxis
30	from	from	ADP	_	29 come	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 take	punct
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 take	cc
33	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	35 take	advmod
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 take	nsubj
35	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 come	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 pleasure	det
37	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 take	obj
38	in	in	SCONJ	_	39 plaguing	mark
39	plaguing	plague	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 take	advcl
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 man	det
41	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 man	amod
42	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 man	amod
43	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 plaguing	obj
44	like	like	ADP	_	45 me	case
45	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 plaguing	obl
46	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 asking	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 asking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask in a quote	would · progressive	sport	much			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent much=Recipient
2	go on	past	teller			to the beggar	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know in a quote	to-infinitive	sport not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a in a quote	present	you		all		tree rules
5	come in a quote	present	you				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	take in a quote	present	you	a pleasure			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme
7	plague in a quote	gerund	you not said here	a poor old man		like the story teller = teller	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer

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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