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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 101

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And therefore it is in her capacity of Baba Yaga, rather than in that of \_Vyed'ma\_, that we desire to study the behavior of the Russian equivalent for the terrible female form which figures in the Anglo-Saxon poem as the Mother of Grendel.

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**Who acts:** supernatural, we, terrible female form · **What happens:** be, desire, study, figure · **To what, where:** capacity, behavior, Saxon poem

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (supernatural, we, terrible female form), 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:pg22373:31:101
# text = And therefore it is in her capacity of Baba Yaga, rather than in that of _Vyed'ma_, that we desire to study the behavior of the Russian equivalent for the terrible female form which figures in the Anglo-Saxon poem as the Mother of Grendel.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	capacity	capacity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	15	cc	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Vyed'ma	Vyed'ma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	desire	desire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	study	study	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	behavior	behavior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	equivalent	equivalent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	female	female	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	figures	figure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
41	Anglo	Anglo	X	AFX	_	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	Saxon	Saxon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
45	as	as	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	Grendel	Grendel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | supernatural |  |  | most's capacity |  | of Baba; therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **desire** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **study** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | the behavior of the Russian equivalent |  |  |  | for the terrible female form | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent behavior=Theme for form=Attribute |
| 4 | **figure** | present | the terrible female form |  |  | the Saxon poem as the Mother of Grendel |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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