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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 125

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Vasilissa was left alone, so she examined the Baba Yaga's house, wondered at the abundance there was in everything, and remained lost in thought as to which work she ought to take to first.

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**Who acts:** Yaga · **What happens:** leave, examine, wonder, lose, take · **To what, where:** Vasilissa, house, abundance, thought

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yaga), 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:pg22373:30:125
# text = Vasilissa was left alone, so she examined the Baba Yaga's house, wondered at the abundance there was in everything, and remained lost in thought as to which work she ought to take to first.
1	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	examined	examine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	32	case	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	32	det	_	_
32	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · passive |  | Vasilissa |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **examine** | past | Yaga | the Baba Yaga's house |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | Yaga *not said here* |  |  | the abundance |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **lose** | past · passive |  |  |  | thought |  | as which work | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: in thought=Eventuality |
| 5 | **take** | ought | Yaga |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to first=Result |

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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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