Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 168

"Only on this condition will I marry you--that for four years I need not go to church."

Who acts: bride, four years · What happens: marry, not need, go · To what, where: you, condition, four years, church

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride, four years), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 marry	punct
2	Only	only	ADV	_	5 condition	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 condition	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 condition	det
5	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 marry	obl
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 marry	aux
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 marry	nsubj
8	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 marry	obj
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 that	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 marry	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 years	case
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 that	nmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 need	nsubj
16	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 years	acl:relcl
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 need	advmod
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 need	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 church	case
20	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 marry	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 marry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	marry in a quote	future	bride	you	this condition	that obl	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
2	not need in a quote	present	bride	four years not said here			tree rules
3	go not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	four years not said here		church		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location

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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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