---
title: So the two knights were ready once more to adventure it, and Bába Ya… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the two knights were ready once more to adventure it, and Bába Yagá took them to another well. Who acts: two knights, Bába. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/39/35/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/39/) / 35

# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 35

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
So the two knights were ready once more to adventure it, and Bába Yagá took them to another well.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** two knights, Bába · **What happens:** be, adventure, take · **To what, where:** oath, knights, another

<!-- .vabout -->
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, Bába), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:39:35
# text = So the two knights were ready once more to adventure it, and Bába Yagá took them to another well.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	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	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	adventure	adventure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	Bába	Bába	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	obl	_	_
20	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the two knights |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **adventure** | to-infinitive | the two knights *not said here* | oath |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past | Bába | knights *= knight* |  | another |  | well *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to another=Destination |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/39/34/)
- next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/39/36/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/39/)