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description: When they entered the sitting-room, the Baba Yaga stretched herself out at full length, and said to Vasilissa: Who acts: gates, Baba Yaga. 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 o
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 99

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When they entered the sitting-room, the Baba Yaga stretched herself out at full length, and said to Vasilissa:

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**Who acts:** gates, Baba Yaga · **What happens:** enter, stretch out, say · **To what, where:** sitting room, Yaga, full length, Vasilissa · **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 (gates, Baba 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:pg22373:30:99
# text = When they entered the sitting-room, the Baba Yaga stretched herself out at full length, and said to Vasilissa:
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	sitting	sitting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
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	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | gates *= gate* | the sitting room |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination |
| 2 | **stretch out** | past | the Baba Yaga | Yaga |  | full length |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Baba Yaga *not said here* |  | Vasilissa |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to vasilissa=Recipient |

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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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