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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 9

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The Baba Yaga who figures in it is, as is so often the case, replaced by a Snake in the variant to which allusion has already been made.

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**Who acts:** Baba Yaga · **What happens:** figure, be, replace, make · **To what, where:** Yaga, case, variant, allusion

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. 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), 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:pg22373:43:9
# text = The Baba Yaga who figures in it is, as is so often the case, replaced by a Snake in the variant to which allusion has already been made.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	figures	figure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	replaced	replace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	26	det	_	_
26	allusion	allusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	already	already	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **figure** | present | the Baba Yaga |  |  | Yaga |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Baba Yaga |  |  |  |  | as the case; often *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **replace** | participle |  | the case *not said here* |  | the variant |  | by a Snake | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | present · perfect · passive |  | which allusion |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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