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title: And as for you, sister, when the Baba Yaga comes, sit down just here… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: And as for you, sister, when the Baba Yaga comes, sit down just here, close by the window; and as you dress her hair, quietly separate the locks and throw them outside through the window. Who acts: Baba Yaga, you. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 49

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And as for you, sister, when the Baba Yaga comes, sit down just here, close by the window; and as you dress her hair, quietly separate the locks and throw them outside through the window.

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**Who acts:** Baba Yaga, you · **What happens:** come, sit down, dress, separate, throw · **To what, where:** hair, locks, window

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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, you), 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:pg22373:44:49
# text = And as for you, sister, when the Baba Yaga comes, sit down just here, close by the window; and as you dress her hair, quietly separate the locks and throw them outside through the window.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	just	just	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	dress	dress	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
31	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	separate	separate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
39	through	through	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the Baba Yaga |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit down** | infinitive |  |  |  | here |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dress** | present | you | Yaga's hair |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 4 | **separate** | infinitive |  | the locks |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient |
| 5 | **throw** | infinitive |  | locks *= lock* |  | the window |  | outside *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme through window=Destination |

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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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