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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/) / 61 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 61 When the Baba Yaga awakes, she tells Jeremiah to scratch her eyes open, but he refuses, reminding her that, long as he has lived under her roof, she has never in any way regaled him, whereas the "fair maiden" had no sooner arrived than she treated him to butter. **Who acts:** Baba Yaga, Yaga, Jeremiah, fair maiden · **What happens:** awake, tell, scratch, refuse, remind, live · **To what, where:** Jeremiah, eyes, that, roof, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baba Yaga, Yaga, Jeremiah, fair maiden), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:32:61 # text = When the Baba Yaga awakes, she tells Jeremiah to scratch her eyes open, but he refuses, reminding her that, long as he has lived under her roof, she has never in any way regaled him, whereas the "fair maiden" had no sooner arrived than she treated him to butter. 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Baba Baba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Yaga Yaga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 awakes awake VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 Jeremiah Jeremiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 scratch scratch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 refuses refuse VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 reminding remind VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 parataxis _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 lived live VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 29 under under ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 35 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 38 det _ _ 38 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 39 regaled regale VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 40 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 42 whereas whereas SCONJ IN _ 46 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 44 " " PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ 48 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 49 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 50 det _ _ 50 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 51 advmod _ _ 51 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 advcl _ _ 52 than than SCONJ IN _ 54 mark _ _ 53 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 54 treated treat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 51 advcl _ _ 55 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 obj _ _ 56 to to ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **awake** | present | the Baba Yaga | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Yaga | | Jeremiah | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent jeremiah=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **scratch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Yaga *not said here* | Yaga's eyes | | | | open *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 4 | **refuse** | present | Jeremiah | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **remind** *speech: other* | gerund | Jeremiah *not said here* | that | | | | | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient | | 6 | **live** | present · perfect | Jeremiah | | | Yaga's roof | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under roof=Location | | 7 | **have** | present | Yaga | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **not** **regale** | past | Yaga *not said here* | | Jeremiah | any way | | | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 9 | **have** | past | the fair maiden | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **arrive** | past | the fair maiden *not said here* | | | | | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 11 | **treat** | past | Yaga | Jeremiah | | | | to butter | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme to butter=be' | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/62/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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