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title: The Bába Yagá had to turn back, but the brothers went home safely. — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bába Yagá had to turn back, but the brothers went home safely. Who acts: Bába Yagá, brothers. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 72

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The Bába Yagá had to turn back, but the brothers went home safely.

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**Who acts:** Bába Yagá, brothers · **What happens:** have, turn back, go

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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, brothers), 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:pg62509:7:72
# text = The Bába Yagá had to turn back, but the brothers went home safely.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Bába	Bába	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	home	home	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Bába Yagá |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn back** | to-infinitive | the Bába Yagá *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past | the brothers |  |  |  |  | home, safely *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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