--- title: The sultan had talked to him, and he paid no heed; and he had beaten… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The sultan had talked to him, and he paid no heed; and he had beaten him, and he paid no heed; and he had tied him up, and he paid no heed, till at last his father grew tired of trying to make him change his ways, and let him alone. Who acts: sultan, last father. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/29/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Nunda, Eater of People](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/29/) / 6 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 6 The sultan had talked to him, and he paid no heed; and he had beaten him, and he paid no heed; and he had tied him up, and he paid no heed, till at last his father grew tired of trying to make him change his ways, and let him alone. **Who acts:** sultan, last father · **What happens:** talk, pay, beat, tie up, grow, try · **To what, where:** sultan, youngest, heed, ways This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sultan, last father), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:29:6 # text = The sultan had talked to him, and he paid no heed; and he had beaten him, and he paid no heed; and he had tied him up, and he paid no heed, till at last his father grew tired of trying to make him change his ways, and let him alone. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sultan sultan NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 talked talk VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 12 det _ _ 12 heed heed NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 beaten beat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 24 det _ _ 24 heed heed NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 36 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 37 det _ _ 37 heed heed NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 39 till till SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 40 at at ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 44 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 45 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 xcomp _ _ 46 of of SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 47 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 45 advcl _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 xcomp _ _ 50 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ _ 51 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 xcomp _ _ 52 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ _ 53 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 56 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 44 conj _ _ 57 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 obj _ _ 58 alone alone ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | past · perfect · passive | | the sultan | youngest *= young* | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pay** | past | sultan | no heed | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset | | 3 | **beat** | past · perfect | sultan | youngest *= young* | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | | 4 | **pay** | past | sultan | no heed | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset | | 5 | **tie up** | past · perfect · passive | | sultan | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient he=Result | | 6 | **pay** | past | sultan | no heed | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset | | 7 | **grow** | past | sultan's last father | | | | | tired *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **try** | gerund | sultan's last father *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 9 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | sultan's last father *not said here* | sultan | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **change** *not said to happen* | infinitive | sultan *not said here* | sultan's ways | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | | 11 | **let** | infinitive | sultan's last father *not said here* | sultan | | | | alone *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/29/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/29/7/) - ↑ back to [The Nunda, Eater of People](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/29/)