More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 62

The fellow that did take in hand These children for to kill, Was for a robbery judged to die, Such was God's blessèd will: Who did confess the very truth, As here hath been displayed: The uncle having died in jail, Where he for debt was laid.

Who acts: fellow, Such, uncle · What happens: take in, kill, judge, die, be, confess · To what, where: hand, robbery, blessèd, truth, uncle

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 (fellow, Such, uncle), 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 fellow	det
2	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 confess	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 take	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fellow	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	5 take	compound:prt
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
8	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 kill	case
11	to	to	PART	_	12 kill	mark
12	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 take	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 robbery	punct
14	Was	Was	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 robbery	nsubj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 robbery	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 robbery	det
17	robbery	robbery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fellow	conj
18	judged	judge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 robbery	acl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 die	mark
20	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 judged	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 blessèd	punct
22	Such	Such	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 blessèd	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 blessèd	cop
24	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 blessèd	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 God	case
26	blessèd	blessèd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fellow	conj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 confess	aux
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 confess	punct
29	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 confess	nsubj
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 confess	aux
31	confess	confess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 truth	det
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 truth	advmod
34	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 confess	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 displayed	punct
36	As	as	SCONJ	_	40 displayed	mark
37	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 displayed	advmod
38	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 displayed	aux
39	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 displayed	aux:pass
40	displayed	display	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 confess	advcl
41	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 died	punct
42	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 uncle	det
43	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 died	nsubj
44	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 died	aux
45	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 confess	parataxis
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 jail	case
47	jail	jail	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 died	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 laid	punct
49	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	54 laid	advmod
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 laid	nsubj:pass
51	for	for	ADP	_	52 debt	case
52	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 he	nmod
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 laid	aux:pass
54	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 jail	acl:relcl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 confess	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take in	past · do-support	the fellow and a robbery and God's blessèd	hand			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument hand=Theme child=Destination
2	kill	to-infinitive	the fellow and a robbery and God's blessèd not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	judge	participle		a robbery not said here			vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	die	to-infinitive					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	is a	past	Such	God's blessèd			tree rules
6	confess	future · do-support	the fellow and a robbery and God's blessèd	the truth			vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Topic
7	display	present · perfect · passive	the fellow and a robbery and God's blessèd not said here		here		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»
8	die	gerund · perfect	the uncle			in jail	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in jail=Attribute
9	lay	past · passive		uncle			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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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