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description: "It's just as well," said the Baba Yaga, "that you've only asked about what you saw out of doors, not indoors! Who acts: much, Baba Yaga, you. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 174

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"It's just as well," said the Baba Yaga, "that you've only asked about what you saw out of doors, not indoors!

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**Who acts:** much, Baba Yaga, you · **What happens:** be, say, ask, see out · **To what, where:** that, doors · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (much, Baba Yaga, you), 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:pg22373:30:174
# text = "It's just as well," said the Baba Yaga, "that you've only asked about what you saw out of doors, not indoors!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	indoors	indoors	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | much |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the Baba Yaga |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | that |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Recipient about what=Topic |
| 4 | **see out** *in a quote* | past | you | doors |  |  |  | indoors *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus |

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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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