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title: But, when you return home, do not appear before Bába Yagá; go into t… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But, when you return home, do not appear before Bába Yagá; go into the stable and hide behind the crib. Who acts: you. 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 75

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But, when you return home, do not appear before Bába Yagá; go into the stable and hide behind the crib.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** return, not appear, not go, not hide · **To what, where:** Bába, stable, crib

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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 (you), 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:pg62509:24:75
# text = But, when you return home, do not appear before Bába Yagá; go into the stable and hide behind the crib.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	return	return	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Bába	Bába	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	stable	stable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	crib	crib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | present | you |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **appear** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  | Bába |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before bába=Location |
| 3 | **not** **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the stable |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into stable=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **not** **hide** | present | you *not said here* |  |  | the crib |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind crib=Location |

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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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