More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 59

And now the heavy wrath of God Upon their uncle fell; Yea, fearful fiends did haunt his house, His conscience felt an hell: His barns were fired, his goods consumed, His lands were barren made, His cattle died within the field, And nothing with him stayed.

Who acts: heavy wrath, fearful fiends, conscience, goods, lands, cattle · What happens: fall, haunt, feel, fire, consume, be · To what, where: house, hell, barns

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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 (heavy wrath, fearful fiends, conscience, goods), 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	_	11 fell	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 fell	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wrath	det
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wrath	amod
5	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 God	case
7	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wrath	nmod
8	Upon	upon	ADP	_	10 uncle	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 uncle	nmod:poss
10	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	obl
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 haunt	punct
13	Yea	yea	INTJ	_	18 haunt	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Yea	punct
15	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fiends	amod
16	fiends	fiend	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 haunt	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 haunt	aux
18	haunt	haunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 fell	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 house	nmod:poss
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 haunt	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 felt	punct
22	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 conscience	nmod:poss
23	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 felt	nsubj
24	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 haunt	conj
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hell	det
26	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 felt	obj
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 fired	punct
28	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 barns	nmod:poss
29	barns	barn	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 fired	nsubj:pass
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 fired	aux:pass
31	fired	fire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 felt	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 consumed	punct
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 goods	nmod:poss
34	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	35 consumed	nsubj
35	consumed	consume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 fired	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 barren	punct
37	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 lands	nmod:poss
38	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 barren	nsubj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 barren	cop
40	barren	barren	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 haunt	conj
41	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 barren	xcomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 died	punct
43	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 cattle	nmod:poss
44	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 died	nsubj
45	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 haunt	parataxis
46	within	within	ADP	_	48 field	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 field	det
48	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 died	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 stayed	punct
50	And	and	CCONJ	_	54 stayed	cc
51	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	54 stayed	nsubj
52	with	with	ADP	_	53 him	case
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 nothing	nmod
54	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fell	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the heavy wrath of God		now	upon babes's uncle	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon uncle=Location
2	haunt	past · do-support	fearful fiends	wrath's house			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus house=Experiencer
3	feel	past	wrath's conscience	a hell			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hell=Theme
4	fire	past · passive		wrath's barns			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	consume	past	wrath's goods				vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	wrath's lands			barren property	tree rules
7	make	participle	wrath's lands not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
8	die	past	wrath's cattle			within the field	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
9	stay	past	nothing				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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