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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 74

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The accuracy of this etymology is confirmed by the use, in the speech of the common people, of the designation \_Yaga Baba\_ for a quarrelsome, scolding old woman."

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**Who acts:** use · **What happens:** confirm, scold, speak · **To what, where:** accuracy, old woman, common people · **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 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use), 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:pg22373:34:74
# text = The accuracy of this etymology is confirmed by the use, in the speech of the common people, of the designation _Yaga Baba_ for a quarrelsome, scolding old woman."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	accuracy	accuracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	etymology	etymology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	confirmed	confirm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	designation	designation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	quarrelsome	quarrelsome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	scolding	scold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
32	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confirm** | present · passive | the use | the accuracy of this etymology |  |  |  | of the designation; for a quarrelsome; Yaga Baba *obl* | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Topic |
| 2 | **scold** | gerund | the use *not said here* | old woman |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme |
| 3 | **speak** |  |  | the common people |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication transitive»: of=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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