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title: Once again Iván passed the night there, and the next day Bába Yagá s… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Once again Iván passed the night there, and the next day Bába Yagá sent her mares to feed. Who acts: Iván, next day. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 70

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Once again Iván passed the night there, and the next day Bába Yagá sent her mares to feed.

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**Who acts:** Iván, next day · **What happens:** pass, send, feed · **To what, where:** mares

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván, next day), 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:pg62509:24:70
# text = Once again Iván passed the night there, and the next day Bába Yagá sent her mares to feed.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	Bába	Bába	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mares	mare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | Iván |  |  | there | again; night |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | past | the next day | Iván's mares |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Theme |
| 3 | **feed** | to-infinitive | the next day *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: 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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