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title: Then the Bába Yagá met them and said: “O ye unlooked-for, uninvited… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Bába Yagá met them and said: “O ye unlooked-for, uninvited guests, how did you dare without leave to tie your horses to my stakes?” Who acts: Bába Yagá, you, my. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 47

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Then the Bába Yagá met them and said: “O ye unlooked-for, uninvited guests, how did you dare without leave to tie your horses to my stakes?”

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**Who acts:** Bába Yagá, you, my · **What happens:** meet, say, dare, tie, stake · **To what, where:** brides, horses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bába Yagá, you, my), 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:pg62509:7:47
# text = Then the Bába Yagá met them and said: “O ye unlooked-for, uninvited guests, how did you dare without leave to tie your horses to my stakes?”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Bába	Bába	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
12	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
13	unlooked	unlooked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	uninvited	uninvited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
24	without	without	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	tie	tie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	stakes	stake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | the Bába Yagá | brides *= bride* |  |  | then |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the Bába Yagá *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dare** *in a quote* | past · do-support | you |  |  |  |  | without leave | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **tie** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | your horses |  |  |  | to my stakes | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient to stake=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **stake** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom stake «possession transitive»: poss=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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