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description: Thereupon the stepmother went to live in another house; and near that house was a dense forest, and in a clearing in that forest there stood a hut,[187] and in the hut there lived a Baba Yaga. Who acts: stepmother, house, clearing. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 39

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Thereupon the stepmother went to live in another house; and near that house was a dense forest, and in a clearing in that forest there stood a hut,\[187\] and in the hut there lived a Baba Yaga.

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**Who acts:** stepmother, house, clearing · **What happens:** go, live, be, stand · **To what, where:** house, dense forest, hut, Baba Yaga

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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 (stepmother, house, clearing), 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:pg22373:30:39
# text = Thereupon the stepmother went to live in another house; and near that house was a dense forest, and in a clearing in that forest there stood a hut,[187] and in the hut there lived a Baba Yaga.
1	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	near	near	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	clearing	clearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
28	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	187	187	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
39	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	40	advmod	_	_
40	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the stepmother |  |  |  |  | thereupon *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **live** | to-infinitive | the stepmother *not said here* |  |  | another house |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | that house |  |  | a dense forest |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | past | a clearing in that forest | a hut |  | there |  | 187 *obl* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus |
| 5 | **live** | past | a clearing in that forest *not said here* | a Baba Yaga |  | the hut; there |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location |

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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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