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title: "Ungrateful, doing no good, Not doing as he would be done by, In him… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Ungrateful, doing no good, Not doing as he would be done by, In him there is no gratitude, To serve him is useless. Who acts: Ungrateful. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 25

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"Ungrateful, doing no good, Not doing as he would be done by, In him there is no gratitude, To serve him is useless.

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**Who acts:** Ungrateful · **What happens:** do, not do, do by, serve, be · **To what, where:** good, Crane

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ungrateful), 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:pg7128:7:25
# text = "Ungrateful, doing no good, Not doing as he would be done by, In him there is no gratitude, To serve him is useless.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	In	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	To	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | gerund | Ungrateful *not said here* | no good |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | gerund | Ungrateful *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do by** *in a quote* | would · passive |  | Crane |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **serve** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | Crane |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Ungrateful |  |  |  |  | useless *property* | 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:** «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.

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