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title: And now the heavy wrath of God Upon their uncle fell; Yea, fearful f… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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, cons
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 59

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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.

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

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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.

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**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:pg14241:25:59
# text = 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.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	Yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fiends	fiend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	haunt	haunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	conscience	conscience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
28	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	barns	barn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	fired	fire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	35	nsubj	_	_
35	consumed	consume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
39	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
40	barren	barren	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
41	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
45	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
46	within	within	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
50	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
51	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	54	nsubj	_	_
52	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nmod	_	_
54	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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.

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**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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