More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 19

And the children died, and the crops rotted--the beasts never fatted, and nothing ever did well with him; and till he was dead and buried, and m'appen even afterwards, there was no end to Yallery Brown's spite at him; day in and day out he used to hear him saying--

Who acts: children, crops, beasts, nothing, Tom, end · What happens: die, rot, not fat, do, be, bury · To what, where: m'appen, Tom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, crops, beasts, nothing), 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	_	4 died	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rotted	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rotted	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crops	det
8	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rotted	nsubj
9	rotted	rot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 died	conj
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 fatted	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 beasts	det
12	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fatted	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 fatted	advmod
14	fatted	fat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rotted	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 did	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 did	cc
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 did	nsubj
18	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 did	advmod
19	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 died	conj
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 did	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 did	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 dead	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 dead	cc
25	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 dead	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dead	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 dead	cop
28	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 died	advcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 buried	cc
30	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 dead	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 m'appen	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 m'appen	cc
33	m'appen	m'appen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	obl
34	even	even	ADV	_	35 afterwards	advmod
35	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	4 died	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 was	punct
37	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	38 was	expl
38	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 died	parataxis
39	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	40 end	det
40	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 was	nsubj
41	to	to	ADP	_	45 spite	case
42	Yallery	Yallery	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 spite	nmod:poss
43	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Yallery	flat
44	's	's	PART	_	42 Yallery	case
45	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 end	nmod
46	at	at	ADP	_	47 him	case
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 spite	nmod
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 day	punct
49	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	obl
50	in	in	ADV	_	4 died	advmod
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 day	cc
52	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	conj
53	out	out	ADV	_	4 died	advmod
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 used	nsubj
55	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 died	conj
56	to	to	PART	_	57 hear	mark
57	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 used	xcomp
58	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 hear	obj
59	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	57 hear	xcomp
60	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	the children	m'appen		day	afterwards, out property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	rot	past	the crops					vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	not fat	past	the beasts					tree rules
4	do	past	nothing			ever	with Tom; well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	Tom				dead property	tree rules
6	bury	participle	Tom not said here					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	be	past	no end to Yallery's spite at Tom		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	use	past	Tom					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	hear	to-infinitive	Tom not said here	Tom				tree rules
10	say speech: assert	gerund	Tom not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
11	spite		Yallery				at Tom	nom spite «feeling transitive»: poss=agent at=obl

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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