Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 40

And they opened the golden case and there were snakes and frogs and all sorts of dirt in it; and looked into the silver one, and they saw the same; and looked into the wooden one, and there trees with leaves and fruit were growing, which emitted sweet odours, and in the middle there was a church and an orchard.

Who acts: cases, snakes, trees, church · What happens: open, be, look, see, grow, emit · To what, where: golden case, same, sweet odours, middle, dirt

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cases, snakes, trees, church), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 opened	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 opened	nsubj
3	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 case	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 case	amod
6	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 were	cc
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 were	expl
9	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 opened	conj
10	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 were	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 frogs	cc
12	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 snakes	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sorts	cc
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 sorts	det
15	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 snakes	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 dirt	case
17	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sorts	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 dirt	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 looked	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 looked	cc
22	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 opened	parataxis
23	into	into	ADP	_	26 one	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 one	det
25	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 one	amod
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looked	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 saw	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 saw	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 saw	nsubj
30	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 looked	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 same	det
32	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 saw	obj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 looked	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 looked	cc
35	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 opened	conj
36	into	into	ADP	_	39 one	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 one	det
38	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 one	amod
39	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 looked	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 growing	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 growing	cc
42	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	43 trees	expl
43	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 growing	nsubj
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 leaves	case
45	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 trees	nmod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 fruit	cc
47	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 leaves	conj
48	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 growing	aux
49	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 opened	advcl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 emitted	punct
51	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 emitted	nsubj
52	emitted	emit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 growing	conj
53	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 odours	amod
54	odours	odour	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 emitted	obj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 was	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 was	cc
57	in	in	ADP	_	59 middle	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 middle	det
59	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 was	obl
60	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	61 was	expl
61	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 opened	parataxis
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 church	det
63	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 was	nsubj
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 orchard	cc
65	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 orchard	det
66	orchard	orchard	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 church	conj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past	cases = case	the golden case			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location case=Theme
2	be	past	snakes and frogs and all sorts of dirt in dirt		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	past				into the silver one	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into one=Theme
4	see	past	cases = case	the same			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer same=Stimulus
5	look	past	cases = case not said here			into the wooden one	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into one=Theme
6	grow	past · progressive	trees there with leaves and fruit				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	emit	past		sweet odours		which nsubj	vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source odour=Theme
8	be	past	a church and a orchard		the middle; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location
9	sort			dirt in dirt			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 18, sentence 40

The tree

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 40