--- title: In the story referred to, Ivan Devich (Ivan the servant-maid's son)… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: In the story referred to, Ivan Devich (Ivan the servant-maid's son) meets a Baba Yaga, who plucks one of her hairs, gives it to him, and says, "Tie three knots and then blow." Who acts: Ivan, Baba Yaga. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTH --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/86/) [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/) / 86 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 86 In the story referred to, Ivan Devich (Ivan the servant-maid's son) meets a Baba Yaga, who plucks one of her hairs, gives it to him, and says, "Tie three knots and then blow." **Who acts:** Ivan, Baba Yaga · **What happens:** refer, meet, pluck, give, say, tie · **To what, where:** story, Baba Yaga, one, Yaga, Ivan, three knots · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Ivan, Baba Yaga), 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:pg22373:29:86 # text = In the story referred to, Ivan Devich (Ivan the servant-maid's son) meets a Baba Yaga, who plucks one of her hairs, gives it to him, and says, "Tie three knots and then blow." 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 4 referred refer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 Ivan Ivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 8 Devich Devich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Ivan Ivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 18 meets meet VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 Baba Baba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Yaga Yaga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 plucks pluck VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 Tie tie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 ccomp _ _ 40 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 knots knot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 44 advmod _ _ 44 blow blow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **refer** | participle | | the story *not said here* | | | | | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **meet** | present | Ivan | a Baba Yaga | | the story | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yaga=Co-Agent | | 3 | **pluck** | present | a Baba Yaga | one of maid's hairs | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 4 | **give** | present | a Baba Yaga *not said here* | Yaga | Ivan | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **tie** *in a quote* | infinitive | | three knots | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=Patient | | 7 | **blow** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | then | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/87/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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