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description: 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. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, with its dependency tree and th
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 81

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

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

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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.

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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:pg22373:61:81
# text = The demon agrees to let him have it on condition that he spends three years in continually weaving nets without ever going to sleep.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	agrees	agree	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	spends	spend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
22	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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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