--- title: And the children died, and the crops rotted--the beasts never fatted… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/) / [More English Fairy Tales, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/) / 19 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg14241:18:19 # text = 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-- 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 crops crop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 rotted rot VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 -- -- PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 fatted fat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 19 nsubj _ _ 18 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 19 advmod _ _ 19 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 till till SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 m'appen m'appen NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 34 even even ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 38 expl _ _ 38 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 39 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 40 det _ _ 40 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 42 Yallery Yallery PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod:poss _ _ 43 Brown Brown PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 44 's 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 45 spite spite NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 46 at at ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ; ; PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 50 in in ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 53 out out ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 54 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 55 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 56 to to PART TO _ 57 mark _ _ 57 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 55 xcomp _ _ 58 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 obj _ _ 59 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 57 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 60 -- -- PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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. - ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/20/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/)