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title: It was the demon Beelzebub, whom he had called up to serve him. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the demon Beelzebub, whom he had called up to serve him. Who acts: room, Beelzebub. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Master and His Pupil, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil, sentence 13

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It was the demon Beelzebub, whom he had called up to serve him.

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**Who acts:** room, Beelzebub · **What happens:** be, call up, serve · **To what, where:** demon, Beelzebub

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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.

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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:pg7439:18:13
# text = It was the demon Beelzebub, whom he had called up to serve him.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	Beelzebub	Beelzebub	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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