Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 155

When they looked into it there was filth and dirt, toads, snakes and frogs, and everything vile, and the Apostles would not drink of it, and swiftly returned to the Saviour.

Who acts: Apostles, filth · What happens: look, be, not drink, return

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Apostles, filth), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 looked	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	obl
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
8	filth	filth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 was	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dirt	cc
10	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 filth	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 toads	punct
12	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 filth	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 snakes	punct
14	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 filth	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 frogs	cc
16	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 filth	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 vile	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 vile	cc
19	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	20 vile	nsubj
20	vile	vile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 drink	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 drink	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Apostles	det
24	Apostles	Apostle	PROPN	Number=Plur	27 drink	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 drink	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 drink	advmod
27	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 vile	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 drink	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 returned	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 returned	cc
32	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	33 returned	advmod
33	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 Saviour	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Saviour	det
36	Saviour	Saviour	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 returned	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	Apostles = apostle		into fill	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into it=Theme
2	be	past	filth and dirt and toads and snakes and frogs	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not drink	would	the Apostles		of fill	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source
4	return	past	Apostles = apostle not said here		to the Saviour result; swiftly property	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to saviour=Result

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. 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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 155

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 155