--- title: Then the Baba Yaga said: "Go, my child, to the sea-shore; there will… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Then the Baba Yaga said: "Go, my child, to the sea-shore; there will fly thither twelve spoonbills, which will turn into fair maidens, and begin bathing; do you steal quietly up and lay your hands on the eldest maiden's shift. Who acts: Baba Yaga, you, eldest maiden. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tal --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/27/17/) [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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/27/) / 17 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 17 Then the Baba Yaga said: "Go, my child, to the sea-shore; there will fly thither twelve spoonbills, which will turn into fair maidens, and begin bathing; do you steal quietly up and lay your hands on the eldest maiden's shift. **Who acts:** Baba Yaga, you, eldest maiden · **What happens:** say, go, fly, turn, begin, steal · **To what, where:** child, sea shore, twelve spoonbills, fair maidens, bathing, hands · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baba Yaga, you, eldest maiden), 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:pg22373:27:17 # text = Then the Baba Yaga said: "Go, my child, to the sea-shore; there will fly thither twelve spoonbills, which will turn into fair maidens, and begin bathing; do you steal quietly up and lay your hands on the eldest maiden's shift. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Baba Baba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Yaga Yaga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 21 expl _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 22 thither thither ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 spoonbills spoonbill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 27 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 29 into into ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 maidens maiden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 begin begin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 35 bathing bathing NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 37 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 steal steal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 40 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 up up ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 conj _ _ 44 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 46 on on ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 49 amod _ _ 49 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 50 's 's PART POS _ 49 case _ _ 51 shift shift NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Baba Yaga | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | my child | | the sea shore | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to shore=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **fly** *in a quote* | future | | twelve spoonbills | | there | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spoonbill=Theme | | 4 | **turn** *in a quote* | future | | | | fair maidens | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into maiden=Trajectory | | 5 | **begin** *in a quote* | present | | bathing | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bathing=Eventuality | | 6 | **steal** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **lay** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | your hands | | the eldest maiden's shift | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on shift=Destination | | 8 | **shift** *in a quote* | | the eldest maiden | | | | | | nom shift «event transitive»: 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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/27/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/27/18/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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