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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/) / 58 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 58 The Baba Yaga appears as usual, and begins thumping him with her pestle; but he snatches it from her, beats her almost to death with it, cuts three strips out of her back, and then locks her up in a closet. **Who acts:** Baba Yaga, Ivan · **What happens:** appear, begin, thump, snatch, beat, cut · **To what, where:** Ivan, Yaga, party, three strips, back, closet 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, Ivan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:29:58 # text = The Baba Yaga appears as usual, and begins thumping him with her pestle; but he snatches it from her, beats her almost to death with it, cuts three strips out of her back, and then locks her up in a closet. 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 appears appear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 begins begin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 thumping thump VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 pestle pestle NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 snatches snatch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 beats beat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 24 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 almost almost ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 cuts cut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 32 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 strips strip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 out out ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 of of 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 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 41 advmod _ _ 41 locks lock VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 42 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 up up ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 closet closet NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | present | the Baba Yaga | | | | | as usual | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **begin** | present | the Baba Yaga *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **thump** | gerund | the Baba Yaga *not said here* | Ivan | | | | with party's pestle | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with pestle=Instrument | | 4 | **snatch** | present | Ivan | Yaga | | | | from party | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from she=Source | | 5 | **beat** | present | Ivan *not said here* | party | | | | to death *result*; with Yaga | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient to death=Result with it=Instrument | | 6 | **cut** | present | | three strips | | party's back | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset strip=Product | | 7 | **lock up** | present | | party | | a closet | then | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/59/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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