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title: They replace the three benignant Baba Yagas of Russian stories. — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: They replace the three benignant Baba Yagas of Russian stories. Who acts: females. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 2

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They replace the three benignant Baba Yagas of Russian stories.

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**Who acts:** females · **What happens:** replace · **To what, where:** three benignant Russian stories

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (females), 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:pg22373:38:2
# text = They replace the three benignant Baba Yagas of Russian stories.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	replace	replace	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
5	benignant	benignant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
6	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Yagas	Yagas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **replace** | present | females *= female* | the three benignant Russian stories |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme story=Co-Theme |

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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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