--- title: And saying, "Truly, O king! those who are called chatter-boxes--peop… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And saying, "Truly, O king! those who are called chatter-boxes--people whose words have no end--come to grief like this," he uttered these Verses: Who acts: words, word. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/69/) [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/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/) / 69 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 69 And saying, "Truly, O king! those who are called chatter-boxes--people whose words have no end--come to grief like this," he uttered these Verses: **Who acts:** words, word · **What happens:** say, call, have, come, utter · **To what, where:** king, chatter boxes, end, grief, Verses · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, word), 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:pg7128:17:69 # text = And saying, "Truly, O king! those who are called chatter-boxes--people whose words have no end--come to grief like this," he uttered these Verses: 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 2 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Truly truly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 O o INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ _ 8 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ! ! PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 10 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 8 nmod _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 chatter chatter NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 -- -- PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 appos _ _ 19 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 23 det _ _ 23 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 -- -- PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 grief grief NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 like like ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 uttered utter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 34 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 35 det _ _ 35 Verses verse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: express* | gerund | | king those | | | | truly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **call** *in a quote* | present · passive | | chatter boxes | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | words | no end | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient | | 4 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | grief | | like this | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to grief=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | word | this Verses | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent verse=Topic | 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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/70/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/)