Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 3
The demon pretends to consent, but only on condition that the prince is able to pick out his love from among her numerous sisters.
Who acts: demon, prince · What happens: pretend, consent, be, pick out, love · To what, where: love
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, prince), 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 | 3 pretends | nsubj |
| 3 | pretends | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 consent | mark |
| 5 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pretends | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 condition | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 condition | cc |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 condition | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 condition | case |
| 10 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pretends | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 able | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 able | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 able | cop |
| 15 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 condition | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 pick | mark |
| 17 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 able | xcomp |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 pick | compound:prt |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 love | nmod:poss |
| 20 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pick | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 sisters | case |
| 22 | among | among | ADP | _ | 25 sisters | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 24 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sisters | amod |
| 25 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pick | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pretends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | present | the demon | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | consent | to-infinitive | the demon not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the prince | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pick out | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | prince's love | from demon's numerous sisters | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent love=Theme from sister=Source | |||
| 5 | love | prince | nom love «feeling 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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