English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil, sentence 3

It told how many angels there were in heaven, and how they marched in their ranks, and sang in their quires, and what were their several functions, and what was the name of each great angel of might.

Who acts: book, angels · What happens: tell, march, sing, be · To what, where: many angels, ranks, quires, several functions, name · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (book, angels), 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	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 angels	amod
5	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	obj
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 were	expl
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angels	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 heaven	case
9	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 were	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 marched	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 marched	cc
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 marched	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 marched	nsubj
14	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 ranks	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 ranks	nmod:poss
17	ranks	rank	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 marched	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sang	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sang	cc
20	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 quires	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 quires	nmod:poss
23	quires	quire	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sang	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 functions	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 functions	cc
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 functions	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 functions	cop
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 functions	nmod:poss
29	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 functions	amod
30	functions	function	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sang	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 name	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 name	cc
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 name	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 name	cop
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 name	det
36	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sang	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 angel	case
38	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	40 angel	det
39	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 angel	amod
40	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 name	nmod
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 might	case
42	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 angel	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	book		many angels			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent angel=Recipient
2	march	past	angels = angel			angels's ranks		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rank=Trajectory
3	sing speech: express	past	book not said here			angels's quires		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in quire=Location
4	is a	past		angels's several functions				tree rules
5	is a	past		the name			of each great angel	tree rules

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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