English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil, sentence 13
It was the demon Beelzebub, whom he had called up to serve him.
Who acts: room, Beelzebub · What happens: be, call up, serve · To what, where: demon, Beelzebub
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Master and His Pupil. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room, Beelzebub), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 demon | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 demon | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 demon | det |
| 4 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | Beelzebub | Beelzebub | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 demon | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 7 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 called | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 called | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 called | aux |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 demon | acl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 called | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 serve | mark |
| 13 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 called | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 serve | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 demon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | room | the demon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call up speech: assert | past · perfect | Beelzebub | the demon | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | serve | to-infinitive | Beelzebub not said here | Beelzebub | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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