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title: But one day Bába Yagá with the bony legs came into the hut and sucke… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But one day Bába Yagá with the bony legs came into the hut and sucked the blood out of the fair maiden’s breast. Who acts: one day. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 143

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But one day Bába Yagá with the bony legs came into the hut and sucked the blood out of the fair maiden’s breast.

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**Who acts:** one day · **What happens:** come, suck · **To what, where:** hut, blood, breast

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one 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:pg62509:38:144
# text = But one day Bába Yagá with the bony legs came into the hut and sucked the blood out of the fair maiden’s breast.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	Bába	Bába	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bony	bony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	sucked	suck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | one day with the bony legs |  |  | the hut |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into hut=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **suck** | past | one day with the bony legs *not said here* | the blood |  | the fair maiden's breast |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent blood=Theme out breast=Source |

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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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