--- title: This leads to a full confession, on hearing which Ivan "runs to the… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: This leads to a full confession, on hearing which Ivan "runs to the closet, takes those strips out of the Baba Yaga, and applies them to their backs," which immediately become cured. Who acts: This, Ivan, backs. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/61/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/) / 61 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 61 This leads to a full confession, on hearing which Ivan "runs to the closet, takes those strips out of the Baba Yaga, and applies them to their backs," which immediately become cured. **Who acts:** This, Ivan, backs · **What happens:** lead, run, take, apply, become, cure · **To what, where:** hearing, closet, strips, Baba Yaga, comrades 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 (This, Ivan, backs), 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:pg22373:29:61 # text = This leads to a full confession, on hearing which Ivan "runs to the closet, takes those strips out of the Baba Yaga, and applies them to their backs," which immediately become cured. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 nsubj _ _ 2 leads lead VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 confession confession NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 hearing hearing NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 obj _ _ 11 Ivan Ivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 closet closet NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 20 strips strip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 out out ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 of of 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 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 applies apply VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 backs back NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 36 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 38 cured cure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lead** | present | This | | | | | to a full confession | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to confession=Patient | | 2 | **run** *in a quote* | present | Ivan | hearing | | the closet | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent which=Theme to closet=Trajectory | | 3 | **take** *in a quote* | present | This *not said here* | that strips | | the Baba Yaga | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent strip=Theme out yaga=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **apply** *in a quote* | present | This *not said here* | comrades *= comrade* | | | | to comrades's backs | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **become** | present | comrades's backs | | | | | immediately *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **cure** | participle | comrades's backs *not said here* | | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer | 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 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/62/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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