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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sultan	det
2	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talked	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 talked	aux
4	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 talked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 paid	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 paid	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 paid	nsubj
10	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 talked	conj
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 heed	det
12	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 paid	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 beaten	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 beaten	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 beaten	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 beaten	aux
17	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 talked	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 beaten	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 paid	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 paid	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 paid	nsubj
22	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 talked	conj
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 heed	det
24	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 paid	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 tied	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 tied	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tied	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 tied	aux
29	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 talked	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tied	obj
31	up	up	ADP	_	29 tied	compound:prt
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 paid	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 paid	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 paid	nsubj
35	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 talked	parataxis
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 heed	det
37	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 paid	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 grew	punct
39	till	till	SCONJ	_	44 grew	mark
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 last	case
41	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 father	amod
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 father	nmod:poss
43	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 grew	nsubj
44	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 paid	conj
45	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 grew	xcomp
46	of	of	SCONJ	_	47 trying	mark
47	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 tired	advcl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 make	mark
49	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 trying	xcomp
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 make	obj
51	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 make	xcomp
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 ways	nmod:poss
53	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 change	obj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 let	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 let	cc
56	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	44 grew	conj
57	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 let	obj
58	alone	alone	ADV	_	56 let	advmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	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.

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