--- title: In a third variant of the story,[84] they are snakes which are kille… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: In a third variant of the story,[84] they are snakes which are killed by the hero, Ivan Koshkin (Cat's son), and it is a Baba Yaga, or Hag, who undertakes to revenge their deaths and those of their wives, her daughters. Who acts: adventures, hero, story, Baba Yaga. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/26/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/) / 26 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 26 In a third variant of the story,\[84\] they are snakes which are killed by the hero, Ivan Koshkin (Cat's son), and it is a Baba Yaga, or Hag, who undertakes to revenge their deaths and those of their wives, her daughters. **Who acts:** adventures, hero, story, Baba Yaga · **What happens:** be, kill, undertake, vary, die · **To what, where:** snakes, Baba Yaga, revenge This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adventures, hero, story, Baba Yaga), 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:pg22373:20:26 # text = In a third variant of the story,[84] they are snakes which are killed by the hero, Ivan Koshkin (Cat's son), and it is a Baba Yaga, or Hag, who undertakes to revenge their deaths and those of their wives, her daughters. 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 amod _ _ 4 variant variant NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 84 84 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 hero hero NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Ivan Ivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 23 Koshkin Koshkin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 flat _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 Baba Baba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 Yaga Yaga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 Hag Hag PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 41 undertakes undertake VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 revenge revenge NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 44 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 deaths death NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 conj _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 45 conj _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 wives wife NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 52 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ _ 53 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | adventures *= adventure* | snakes | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **kill** | present · passive | the hero | snakes | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | story | a Baba Yaga or Hag | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **undertake** | present | a Baba Yaga or Hag | revenge and adventures's deaths and Hag's daughters | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Eventuality | | 5 | **vary** | | the story | | | | | | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent | | 6 | **die** | | adventures *= adventure* | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: 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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/20/27/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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