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title: "Ha! so you're still up to your tricks," said the heroes, and began… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Ha! so you're still up to your tricks," said the heroes, and began to strangle the Baba Yaga, with the intention of flinging her, the accursed one, into the fiery fount. Who acts: you, heroes, intention, your. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic an
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 75

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"Ha! so you're still up to your tricks," said the heroes, and began to strangle the Baba Yaga, with the intention of flinging her, the accursed one, into the fiery fount.

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**Who acts:** you, heroes, intention, your · **What happens:** be, say, begin, strangle, fling, trick · **To what, where:** Baba Yaga, Yaga, fiery fount · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, heroes, intention, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg22373:3536`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:44:75
# text = "Ha! so you're still up to your tricks," said the heroes, and began to strangle the Baba Yaga, with the intention of flinging her, the accursed one, into the fiery fount.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
2	Ha	ha	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	14	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	strangle	strangle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	intention	intention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
29	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	flinging	fling	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	accursed	accursed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	fount	fount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  | still | to your tricks; up *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the heroes |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the heroes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **strangle** | to-infinitive | the heroes *not said here* | the Baba Yaga |  |  |  | with the intention | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent yaga=Patient with intention=Instrument |
| 5 | **fling** | gerund | the intention *not said here* | Yaga |  | the fiery fount |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme into fount=Destination |
| 6 | **trick** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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