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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 42

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But the girl always got home safe and sound; the doll used to show her the way, and never let her go near the Baba Yaga's dwelling.

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**Who acts:** girl, doll · **What happens:** get, use, show, not let, go · **To what, where:** way, girl, dwelling

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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 (girl, doll), 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:pg22373:30:42
# text = But the girl always got home safe and sound; the doll used to show her the way, and never let her go near the Baba Yaga's dwelling.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	near	near	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the girl |  |  |  |  | always, home, safe *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **use** | participle | the doll |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **show** | to-infinitive | the doll *not said here* | the way | girl |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient way=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **let** | infinitive | the doll *not said here* | girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive | girl *not said here* |  |  | the Baba Yaga's dwelling |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near dwelling=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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