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title: But after a time a Baba Yaga took to haunting their hut and sucking… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: But after a time a Baba Yaga took to haunting their hut and sucking the breasts of the merchant's daughter. Who acts: Baba Yaga. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 35

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But after a time a Baba Yaga took to haunting their hut and sucking the breasts of the merchant's daughter.

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**Who acts:** Baba Yaga · **What happens:** take, haunt, suck · **To what, where:** hut, breasts

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. 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:pg22373:44:35
# text = But after a time a Baba Yaga took to haunting their hut and sucking the breasts of the merchant's daughter.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	haunting	haunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	sucking	suck	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	breasts	breast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | a Baba Yaga |  |  |  | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **haunt** | gerund | a Baba Yaga *not said here* | meals's hut |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hut=Experiencer |
| 3 | **suck** | gerund | a Baba Yaga *not said here* | the breasts of the merchant's daughter |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent breast=Source |

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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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