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title: And out of the wood Bába Yagá drove in inside the mortar with the pe… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And out of the wood Bába Yagá drove in inside the mortar with the pestle, and with the broom swept away every trace of her steps. Who acts: Bába. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 101

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And out of the wood Bába Yagá drove in inside the mortar with the pestle, and with the broom swept away every trace of her steps.

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**Who acts:** Bába · **What happens:** drive, sweep away, step · **To what, where:** wood, trace

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bába), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:14:101
# text = And out of the wood Bába Yagá drove in inside the mortar with the pestle, and with the broom swept away every trace of her steps.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	Bába	Bába	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mortar	mortar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pestle	pestle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	broom	broom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
21	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past |  |  |  | the wood |  | in the mortar with the pestle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out wood=Trajectory |
| 2 | **sweep away** | past |  | every trace of Bába's steps |  |  |  | with the broom; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trace=Trajectory |
| 3 | **step** |  | Bába |  |  |  |  |  | nom step «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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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