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title: If Bába Yagá comes, whilst you are combing her hair weave a part of… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If Bába Yagá comes, whilst you are combing her hair weave a part of her hair and hang the knot on to the window. Who acts: Bába, you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 13

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If Bába Yagá comes, whilst you are combing her hair weave a part of her hair and hang the knot on to the window.

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**Who acts:** Bába, you · **What happens:** come, comb, weave, hang on · **To what, where:** hair, part, knot

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bába, 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:pg62509:39:13
# text = If Bába Yagá comes, whilst you are combing her hair weave a part of her hair and hang the knot on to the window.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Bába	Bába	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	combing	comb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	weave	weave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	knot	knot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Bába |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **comb** | present · progressive | you | Bába's hair |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **weave** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a part of Bába's hair |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Product |
| 4 | **hang on** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the knot |  |  |  | to the window *result* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent knot=Patient to window=Result |

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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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