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title: People are too apt to reproach those who beg with being idle, but gi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History o
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 12

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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.

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

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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.

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**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:pg503:29:12
# text = 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.
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	apt	apt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	reproach	reproach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
7	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	beg	beg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
12	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	concern	concern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
27	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	considering	consider	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
33	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	ccomp	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	charity	charity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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