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title: Bába Yagá looked round everywhere, and was rather angry that she had… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Bába Yagá looked round everywhere, and was rather angry that she had nothing to find fault with and said: “Very well.” 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 143

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Bába Yagá looked round everywhere, and was rather angry that she had nothing to find fault with and said: “Very well.”

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**Who acts:** Bába · **What happens:** look round, be, have, find, say · **To what, where:** nothing, fault · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg62509:14:143
# text = Bába Yagá looked round everywhere, and was rather angry that she had nothing to find fault with and said: “Very well.”
1	Bába	Bába	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	round	round	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look round** | past | Bába |  |  |  |  | everywhere, round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | Bába | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | Bába *not said here* | fault |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Bába *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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