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description: In one of the numerous stories[172] about the Baba Yaga, four heroes are wandering about the world together; when they come to a dense forest in which a small izba, or hut, is twirling round on "a fowl's leg." Who acts: four heroes, heroes, small izba. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Co
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 46

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In one of the numerous stories\[172\] about the Baba Yaga, four heroes are wandering about the world together; when they come to a dense forest in which a small izba, or hut, is twirling round on "a fowl's leg."

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**Who acts:** four heroes, heroes, small izba · **What happens:** wonder, come, twirl · **To what, where:** dense forest

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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 (four heroes, heroes, small izba), 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:pg22373:29:46
# text = In one of the numerous stories[172] about the Baba Yaga, four heroes are wandering about the world together; when they come to a dense forest in which a small izba, or hut, is twirling round on "a fowl's leg."
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	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	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	172	172	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	together	together	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	obl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	izba	izba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	twirling	twirl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	acl:relcl	_	_
42	round	round	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
44	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	's	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	_
48	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present · progressive | four heroes |  |  |  |  | in one of the numerous stories about the Baba Yaga; about the world; together *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about world=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | present | heroes *= hero* |  |  | a dense forest |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **twirl** | present · progressive | a small izba or hut |  |  | a dense forest |  | on a fowl's leg; round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in which=Source on leg=Trajectory |

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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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