--- title: The demon now believes that his proposed son-in-law must be a god in… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, with its dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/) / 13 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:28:13 # text = The demon now believes that his proposed son-in-law must be a god in disguise, so he gives his consent to the marriage. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 demon demon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 4 believes believe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 proposed propose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 god god NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 ccomp _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 disguise disguise NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 consent consent NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/14/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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