Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 29

"I'll tell you what it is, young man, it would be fitter for you to be looking after your father's property than to be bothering decent quiet people with your foolish questions.

Who acts: I, taste, you, your · What happens: tell, be, look, bother, question · To what, where: young man, you, decent quiet people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Field of Boliauns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, taste, you, your), 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	_	4 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 what	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 man	punct
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fitter	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fitter	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 fitter	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 fitter	cop
16	fitter	fit	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 tell	parataxis
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 looking	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 looking	nsubj
19	to	to	PART	_	21 looking	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 looking	aux
21	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 fitter	advcl
22	after	after	ADP	_	26 property	case
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 property	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 father	case
26	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 looking	obl
27	than	than	SCONJ	_	30 bothering	mark
28	to	to	PART	_	30 bothering	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 bothering	aux
30	bothering	bother	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 looking	advcl
31	decent	decent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 people	amod
32	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 people	amod
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 bothering	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 questions	case
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 questions	nmod:poss
36	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 questions	amod
37	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 bothering	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	I	young man	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	present	taste					tree rules
3	is in a quote	would	taste				fit property	tree rules
4	look in a quote	to-infinitive · progressive	you			after your father's property		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	bother in a quote	to-infinitive · progressive	you not said here	decent quiet people			with your foolish questions	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer
6	question in a quote		your					nom question «communication transitive»: poss=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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