English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil, sentence 4

And it told of the demons, how many of them there were, and what were their several powers, and their labours, and their names, and how they might be summoned, and how tasks might be imposed on them, and how they might be chained to be as slaves to man.

Who acts: name, labours · What happens: tell, be, summon, impose, chain, name · To what, where: labours, several powers, tasks · 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 (name, labours), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 told	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 demons	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 demons	det
6	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 many	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 many	advmod
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 were	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 many	nmod
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 were	expl
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 demons	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 powers	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 powers	cc
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 powers	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 powers	cop
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 powers	nmod:poss
19	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 powers	amod
20	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 labours	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 labours	cc
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 labours	nmod:poss
24	labours	labour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	iobj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 names	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 names	cc
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 names	nmod:poss
28	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 labours	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 summoned	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 summoned	cc
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	35 summoned	advmod
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 summoned	nsubj
33	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 summoned	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 summoned	aux:pass
35	summoned	summon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 imposed	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 imposed	cc
38	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	42 imposed	advmod
39	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 imposed	nsubj:pass
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 imposed	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 imposed	aux:pass
42	imposed	impose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 summoned	conj
43	on	on	ADP	_	44 them	case
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 imposed	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 chained	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 chained	cc
47	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	51 chained	advmod
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 chained	nsubj:pass
49	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 chained	aux
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 chained	aux:pass
51	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	parataxis
52	to	to	PART	_	55 slaves	mark
53	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 slaves	cop
54	as	as	ADP	_	55 slaves	case
55	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 chained	obl
56	to	to	ADP	_	57 man	case
57	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 slaves	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	name		powers's labours and labours's names	of the demons	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent labour=Recipient
2	is a	past		demons's several powers			tree rules
3	summon	might · passive		labours = labour			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
4	impose	might · passive		tasks		on labours = labour	vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	chain	might · passive		tasks = task			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	is	to-infinitive				as slaves; to man	tree rules
7	name		labours = labour				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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