Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 13
The demon now believes that his proposed son-in-law must be a god in disguise, so he gives his consent to the marriage.
Who acts: demon, proposed son, help · What happens: believe, propose, be, give, consent · To what, where: god, disguise, consent, marriage
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (demon, proposed son, help), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 demon | det |
| 2 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 believes | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 believes | advmod |
| 4 | believes | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 god | mark |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 son | amod |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 god | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 law | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 law | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 in | punct |
| 12 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 god | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 god | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 god | det |
| 16 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 believes | ccomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 disguise | case |
| 18 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 god | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gives | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 gives | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gives | nsubj |
| 22 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 believes | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 consent | nmod:poss |
| 24 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gives | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 marriage | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 marriage | det |
| 27 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gives | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | the demon | now | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | propose | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | must | help's proposed son in law | a god | disguise | tree rules | |||
| 4 | give | present | help | help's consent | the marriage | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent consent=Theme to marriage=Recipient | |||
| 5 | consent | help | nom consent «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: «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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