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title: When the Baba Yaga awakes in the morning, looks out of the window, a… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 100

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When the Baba Yaga awakes in the morning, looks out of the window, and sees her daughters' heads on their spikes, she flies into a passion, calls for "her burning shield," sets off in pursuit of her sons-in-law, and "begins burning up everything on all four sides with her shield."

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**Who acts:** Baba Yaga, youth, windows · **What happens:** awake, look out, see, fly, set off, begin · **To what, where:** window, heads, spikes, passion, pursuit, everything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. 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, youth, windows), 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:pg22373:29:100
# text = When the Baba Yaga awakes in the morning, looks out of the window, and sees her daughters' heads on their spikes, she flies into a passion, calls for "her burning shield," sets off in pursuit of her sons-in-law, and "begins burning up everything on all four sides with her shield."
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
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	awakes	awake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	spikes	spike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	advcl	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	appos	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
40	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
41	off	off	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
55	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	54	xcomp	_	_
56	up	up	ADP	RP	_	55	compound:prt	_	_
57	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	55	obj	_	_
58	on	on	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	61	det	_	_
60	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	61	nummod	_	_
61	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nmod	_	_
62	with	with	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	64	nmod:poss	_	_
64	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | present | the Baba Yaga |  |  |  | morning |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look out** | present |  | the window |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | present |  | youth's daughters's heads |  | windows's spikes |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus |
| 4 | **fly** | present | youth |  |  |  |  | into a passion *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into passion=Result |
| 5 | **set off** | present |  |  |  | pursuit of youth's sons and law |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **begin** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **burn up** *in a quote* | gerund |  | everything |  | all four sides with youth's shield |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
| 8 | **spike** |  | windows *= window* |  |  |  |  |  | nom spike «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **pursue** |  |  | youth's sons and law |  |  |  |  | nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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