English Fairy Tales, XV. Master and Pupil, sentence 8

In one of the legends about Virgil he summoned a number of demons, who would have torn him to pieces if he had not set them at work (J. S. Tunison, _Master Virgil_, Cincinnati, 1888, p. 30).

Who acts: Friar · What happens: summon, tear, not set · To what, where: number, demons, pieces, work

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. Master and Pupil. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Friar), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 summoned	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 legends	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 legends	det
5	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 Virgil	case
7	Virgil	virgil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 legends	nmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 summoned	nsubj
9	summoned	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 number	det
11	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 summoned	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 demons	case
13	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 number	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 torn	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 torn	nsubj:pass
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 torn	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 torn	aux
18	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 demons	acl:relcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 torn	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 pieces	case
21	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 torn	obl
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 set	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 set	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 set	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 set	advmod
26	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 torn	advcl
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 set	obj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 work	case
29	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 set	obl
30	(	(	PUNCT	_	31 J.	punct
31	J.	J.	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 work	appos
32	S.	S.	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 J.	flat
33	Tunison	Tunison	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 J.	flat
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 1888	punct
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	42 1888	punct
36	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 1888	nsubj
37	Virgil	Virgil	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Master	flat
38	_	_	PUNCT	_	36 Master	punct
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Cincinnati	punct
40	Cincinnati	Cincinnati	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Master	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 1888	punct
42	1888	1888	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 J.	amod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 p.	punct
44	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 J.	conj
45	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	44 p.	flat
46	)	)	PUNCT	_	31 J.	punct
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 summoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	summon	past	Friar	a number of demons		in one of the legends about Virgil	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Recipient
2	tear	would · perfect · passive		demons		to pieces	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient he=Result
3	not set a condition, not said to happen	past	Friar	pieces = piece	work		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme at work=Destination

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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