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description: More than ever did the Baba Yaga storm at her mares and shriek:-- Who acts: More. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 19

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More than ever did the Baba Yaga storm at her mares and shriek:--

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**Who acts:** More · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Baba storm

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (More), 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:pg22373:23:19
# text = More than ever did the Baba Yaga storm at her mares and shriek:--
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	nsubj	_	_
2	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mares	mare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	shriek	shriek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | More | the Baba storm |  |  | ever | at Ivan's mares and shriek | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=Eventuality |

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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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