Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 2

But she was very grudging, and she announced in all countries that she would only marry the man who could feed her army for three whole years; yet every one had to try his luck.

Who acts: princess, man, one · What happens: be, announce, marry, feed, have, try · To what, where: grudging, countries, man, army, luck

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, man, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 grudging	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grudging	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grudging	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 grudging	advmod
5	grudging	grudging	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 announced	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 announced	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 announced	nsubj
9	announced	announce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grudging	parataxis
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 countries	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 countries	det
12	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 announced	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 marry	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 marry	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 marry	aux
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 marry	advmod
17	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 announced	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 marry	obj
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 feed	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 feed	aux
22	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 man	acl:relcl
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 army	nmod:poss
24	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 feed	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 years	case
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 years	nummod
27	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 years	amod
28	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 feed	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
30	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	33 had	cc
31	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 one	det
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 announced	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 try	mark
35	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 had	xcomp
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 luck	nmod:poss
37	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 try	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grudging	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	past	princess	grudging			tree rules
2	announce speech: other	past	princess		all countries		vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	marry	would	princess	the man			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
4	feed	could	the man	princess's army		year	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Recipient
5	have	past	every one				tree rules
6	try	to-infinitive	every one not said here	man's luck			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality

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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 2