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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 108

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These, which are the Baba Yaga's children, she soaps over and otherwise treats in the approved Russian-bath style, and afterwards she does as much for their mother.

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**Who acts:** These, sparrow · **What happens:** be, soap over, treat, approve · **To what, where:** children, approved bath style

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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 (These, sparrow), 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:pg22373:29:108
# text = These, which are the Baba Yaga's children, she soaps over and otherwise treats in the approved Russian-bath style, and afterwards she does as much for their mother.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	soaps	soap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	over	over	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	treats	treat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
19	approved	approve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
20	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | These | the Baba Yaga's children |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **soap over** | present | sparrow | the Baba Yaga's children *not said here* |  |  |  | over *property* | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 3 | **treat** | present | sparrow *not said here* |  |  | the approved bath style |  | otherwise *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **approve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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