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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 3

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The Baba Yaga rushed into the hut, saw that the girl was gone, and took to beating the Cat, and abusing it for not having scratched the girl's eyes out. "

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**Who acts:** Baba Yaga, girl, abusing · **What happens:** rush, see, be, take, beat, abuse · **To what, where:** hut, Cat, Yaga, eyes · **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, girl, abusing), 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:pg22373:29:3
# text = The Baba Yaga rushed into the hut, saw that the girl was gone, and took to beating the Cat, and abusing it for not having scratched the girl's eyes out. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	abusing	abuse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	csubj:pass	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	aux	_	_
29	scratched	scratch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | past | the Baba Yaga |  |  | the hut |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hut=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | past | the Baba Yaga *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | the girl |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **beat** | gerund |  | the Cat |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cat=Theme |
| 6 | **abuse** | gerund |  | Yaga |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **scratch out** | gerund · perfect | abusing | the girl's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |

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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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