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title: So the two knights made ready to throw Bába Yagá into the fiery brook. — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the two knights made ready to throw Bába Yagá into the fiery brook. Who acts: two knights. 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 32

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So the two knights made ready to throw Bába Yagá into the fiery brook.

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**Who acts:** two knights · **What happens:** make, throw · **To what, where:** Bába, fiery brook

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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 (two knights), 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:pg62509:39:32
# text = So the two knights made ready to throw Bába Yagá into the fiery brook.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	Bába	Bába	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the two knights |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **throw** | to-infinitive | the two knights *not said here* | Bába |  |  |  | into the fiery brook *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer bába=Theme into brook=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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