--- title: And if the Baba Yaga gets across the river, and tries to catch you,… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: And if the Baba Yaga gets across the river, and tries to catch you, then you must lay your ear on the ground again, and when you hear that she is close at hand, throw down the comb. Who acts: Baba Yaga, you, Yaga. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapt --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/120/) [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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/) / 120 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 120 And if the Baba Yaga gets across the river, and tries to catch you, then you must lay your ear on the ground again, and when you hear that she is close at hand, throw down the comb. **Who acts:** Baba Yaga, you, Yaga · **What happens:** get, try, catch, lay, hear, be · **To what, where:** river, you, ear, ground, hand, comb · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. 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, 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:pg22373:28:120 # text = And if the Baba Yaga gets across the river, and tries to catch you, then you must lay your ear on the ground again, and when you hear that she is close at hand, throw down the comb. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 if if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Baba Baba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Yaga Yaga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 across across ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 tries try VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 again again ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 29 when when SCONJ WRB _ 31 mark _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 ccomp _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 39 throw throw VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 40 down down ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 comb comb NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | the Baba Yaga | | | the river | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across river=Destination | | 2 | **try** | present | the Baba Yaga *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **catch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Baba Yaga *not said here* | you | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 4 | **lay** | must | you | your ear | | the ground | then; again | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ear=Theme on ground=Destination | | 5 | **hear** | present | you | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is** | present | Yaga | | | hand | | close *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **throw down** | infinitive | | the comb | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comb=Theme | 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 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/119/) - next →: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/121/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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