Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 81

The demon agrees to let him have it on condition that he spends three years in continually weaving nets without ever going to sleep.

Who acts: demon, Unlucky · What happens: agree, let, have, spend, weave, go · To what, where: Unlucky, fiddle, condition, nets

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (demon, Unlucky), 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 agrees	nsubj
3	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 let	mark
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 agrees	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 have	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 condition	case
10	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 spends	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 spends	nsubj
13	spends	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 condition	acl:relcl
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 spends	obj
16	in	in	SCONJ	_	18 weaving	mark
17	continually	continually	ADV	_	18 weaving	advmod
18	weaving	weave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 spends	advcl
19	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 weaving	obj
20	without	without	SCONJ	_	22 going	mark
21	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 going	advmod
22	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 weaving	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 sleep	mark
24	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 going	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 agrees	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	the demon					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let not said to happen	to-infinitive	the demon not said here	Unlucky				tree rules
3	have	infinitive	Unlucky not said here	fiddle	condition			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	spend	present	Unlucky	condition not said here		year		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Asset
5	weave	gerund	Unlucky not said here	nets			continually property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Product
6	go	gerund	Unlucky not said here			ever		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	sleep	to-infinitive	Unlucky not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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