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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 5

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Then Bába Yagá said to him, “Go, my child, to the sea; there you will find twelve spoonbills flying in the air, they will turn into fair maidens, who will bathe.

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**Who acts:** Bába, Tsarévich, twelve spoonbills, spoonbills, fair maidens · **What happens:** say, go, find, fly, turn, bathe · **To what, where:** Tsarévich, child, sea, twelve spoonbills, air, fair maidens · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bába, Tsarévich, twelve spoonbills, spoonbills), 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:pg62509:30:5
# text = Then Bába Yagá said to him, “Go, my child, to the sea; there you will find twelve spoonbills flying in the air, they will turn into fair maidens, who will bathe.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Bába	Bába	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
22	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	spoonbills	spoonbill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
37	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	bathe	bathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Bába |  | Tsarévich |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | my child |  | the sea |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **find** *in a quote* | future | Tsarévich | twelve spoonbills |  | there |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoonbill=Topic |
| 4 | **fly** *in a quote* | gerund | twelve spoonbills *not said here* |  |  | the air |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location |
| 5 | **turn** *in a quote* | future | spoonbills *= spoonbill* |  |  | fair maidens |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into maiden=Trajectory |
| 6 | **bathe** *in a quote* | future | fair maidens |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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