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title: The Bába Yagá cried out at once, “Fi, fo, fum, Russian bones, why ha… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bába Yagá cried out at once, “Fi, fo, fum, Russian bones, why have you come here?” Who acts: Bába Yagá, you. 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 103

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The Bába Yagá cried out at once, “Fi, fo, fum, Russian bones, why have you come here?”

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**Who acts:** Bába Yagá, you · **What happens:** cry out, come · **To what, where:** Fi · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Bába Yagá, 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:pg62509:27:103
# text = The Bába Yagá cried out at once, “Fi, fo, fum, Russian bones, why have you come here?”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Bába	Bába	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Fi	fi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	fo	fo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	fum	fum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
23	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | the Bába Yagá | Fi and fo and fum and Russian bones |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  | here |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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