---
title: In the latter group the principal characters are the Baba Yaga, or H… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the latter group the principal characters are the Baba Yaga, or Hag, her close connection the Witch, and the Female Snake. Who acts: principal characters. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, with its dependency tree an
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/19/25/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/19/) / 25

# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 25

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In the latter group the principal characters are the Baba Yaga, or Hag, her close connection the Witch, and the Female Snake.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** principal characters · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Baba Yaga, latter group

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (principal characters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg22373:19:25
# text = In the latter group the principal characters are the Baba Yaga, or Hag, her close connection the Witch, and the Female Snake.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	principal	principal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Hag	Hag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Witch	Witch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Female	Female	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Snake	Snake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the principal characters | the Baba Yaga and the Female Snake |  | the latter group |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/19/24/)
- next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/19/26/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/19/)