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title: Go to the thrice-tenth sea, there there stands a hut on cocks’ legs… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Go to the thrice-tenth sea, there there stands a hut on cocks’ legs in which the Bába Yagá lives. Who acts: you, Bába Yagá. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 100

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Go to the thrice-tenth sea, there there stands a hut on cocks’ legs in which the Bába Yagá lives.

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**Who acts:** you, Bába Yagá · **What happens:** go, stand, live · **To what, where:** tenth sea, hut, legs

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Bába Yagá), 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:pg62509:27:100
# text = Go to the thrice-tenth sea, there there stands a hut on cocks’ legs in which the Bába Yagá lives.
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	thrice	thrice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	tenth	tenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	cocks	cock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Bába	Bába	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the tenth sea |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **stand** | present |  | a hut |  | cocks's legs; there; there |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hut=Theme on leg=Destination |
| 3 | **live** | present | the Bába Yagá |  |  | cocks's legs |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=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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