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title: "Vasilissa, you must go for the light," they both cried out together… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Vasilissa, you must go for the light," they both cried out together; "be off to the Baba Yaga's!" Who acts: Vasilissa, needles. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 55

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"Vasilissa, you must go for the light," they both cried out together; "be off to the Baba Yaga's!"

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**Who acts:** Vasilissa, needles · **What happens:** go off, cry out · **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 (Vasilissa, needles), 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:pg22373:30:55
# text = "Vasilissa, you must go for the light," they both cried out together; "be off to the Baba Yaga's!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	both	both	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	together	together	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go off** *in a quote* | must | Vasilissa |  |  |  |  | for the light; to the Baba Yaga | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | needles *= needle* |  |  |  |  | both, together *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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