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title: The fellow that did take in hand These children for to kill, Was for… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «More Englis
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 62

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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.

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

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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 (fellow, Such, uncle), 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:pg14241:25:62
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	Was	Was	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	robbery	robbery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
18	judged	judge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	Such	Such	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	blessèd	blessèd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	confess	confess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	very	very	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	40	advmod	_	_
38	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	displayed	display	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
42	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
44	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	aux	_	_
45	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	parataxis	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	jail	jail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
49	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	54	advmod	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj:pass	_	_
51	for	for	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
53	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux:pass	_	_
54	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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