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description: They all set forth to seek brides, and eventually marry the forty-one daughters of a Baba Yaga. Who acts: eggs. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 96

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They all set forth to seek brides, and eventually marry the forty-one daughters of a Baba Yaga.

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**Who acts:** eggs · **What happens:** set, seek, marry · **To what, where:** brides, one daughters

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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 (eggs), 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:pg22373:29:96
# text = They all set forth to seek brides, and eventually marry the forty-one daughters of a Baba Yaga.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	brides	bride	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | present | eggs *= egg* |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **seek** | to-infinitive | eggs *= egg* *not said here* | brides |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme |
| 3 | **marry** | infinitive | eggs *= egg* *not said here* | the one daughters of a Baba Yaga |  |  |  | eventually *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |

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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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