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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 28

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In one of the numerous variants of this story\[162\] the heroine is sent by her husband's mother to the Baba Yaga's, and the advice which saves her comes from her husband.

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**Who acts:** mother, advice, story · **What happens:** send, save, come, vary · **To what, where:** heroine, advice

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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 (mother, advice, story), 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:pg22373:29:28
# text = In one of the numerous variants of this story[162] the heroine is sent by her husband's mother to the Baba Yaga's, and the advice which saves her comes from her husband.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	variants	variant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	162	162	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	heroine	heroine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present · passive | girl's husband's mother | the heroine |  |  |  | in one of the numerous variants of this story; to the Baba Yaga | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in one=Destination |
| 2 | **save** | present | the advice | advice |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | present | the advice |  |  |  |  | from girl's husband | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from husband=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **vary** |  | this story |  |  |  |  |  | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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