--- title: So the Bába Yagá served them with food and drink, conducted them to… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So the Bába Yagá served them with food and drink, conducted them to the bath, and then afterwards she asked them: “Have ye come to do deeds, doughty youths, or to flee from deeds?” Who acts: Bába Yagá, Yagá, ye. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7, with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/7/50/) [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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/7/) / 50 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 50 So the Bába Yagá served them with food and drink, conducted them to the bath, and then afterwards she asked them: “Have ye come to do deeds, doughty youths, or to flee from deeds?” **Who acts:** Bába Yagá, Yagá, ye · **What happens:** serve, conduct, ask, have, come, do · **To what, where:** food, bath, ye, deeds · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, Yagá, ye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:7:50 # text = So the Bába Yagá served them with food and drink, conducted them to the bath, and then afterwards she asked them: “Have ye come to do deeds, doughty youths, or to flee from deeds?” 1 So so ADV RB _ 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 served serve 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 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 conducted conduct VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 bath bath NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ _ 20 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 “ " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 27 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 obj _ _ 28 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 deeds deed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 doughty doughty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 youths youth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 flee flee VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 39 from from ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 deeds deed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ? ? PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **serve** | past | the Bába Yagá | food | | | | with food and drink | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Recipient with food=Theme | | 2 | **conduct** | past | the Bába Yagá *not said here* | food | | the bath | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to bath=Destination | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Yagá | | food | | then | afterwards *property* | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | infinitive | | ye | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | ye *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* | deeds and doughty youths | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality | | 7 | **flee** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | deeds | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from deed=Initial\_Location | 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. **Text:** «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. 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