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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 saying	cc
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Truly	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Truly	punct
5	Truly	truly	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 king	punct
7	O	o	INTJ	_	8 king	discourse
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saying	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 those	punct
10	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 king	nmod
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 called	nsubj:pass
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 called	aux:pass
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 those	acl:relcl
14	chatter	chatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 boxes	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 chatter	punct
16	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 called	xcomp
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 people	punct
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 boxes	appos
19	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	20 words	nmod:poss
20	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 have	nsubj
21	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 people	acl:relcl
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 end	det
23	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 saying	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 grief	case
27	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	obl
28	like	like	ADP	_	29 this	case
29	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 come	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 uttered	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 uttered	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 uttered	nsubj
33	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saying	ccomp
34	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 Verses	det
35	Verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 uttered	obj
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 uttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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.

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