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description: 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. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, with its dependency tree and
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 3

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The demon pretends to consent, but only on condition that the prince is able to pick out his love from among her numerous sisters.

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**Who acts:** demon, prince · **What happens:** pretend, consent, be, pick out, love · **To what, where:** love

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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.

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**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:pg22373:28:3
# text = The demon pretends to consent, but only on condition that the prince is able to pick out his love from among her numerous sisters.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pretends	pretend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	consent	consent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	among	among	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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