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title: And it told of the demons, how many of them there were, and what wer… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Englis
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# English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil, sentence 4

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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.

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**Who acts:** name, labours · **What happens:** tell, be, summon, impose, chain, name · **To what, where:** labours, several powers, tasks · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (name, labours), 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:pg7439:18:4
# text = 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.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	demons	demon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	labours	labour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	summoned	summon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
38	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
39	tasks	task	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	imposed	impose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	conj	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
47	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	51	advmod	_	_
48	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
50	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	chained	chain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
53	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	cop	_	_
54	as	as	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	_
56	to	to	ADP	TO	_	57	case	_	_
57	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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