--- title: Long, long ago, Christ and his twelve Apostles were wandering about… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Long, long ago, Christ and his twelve Apostles were wandering about the world, and they entered into a village one evening, and asked a rich moujik to allow them to spend the night in his house. Who acts: twelve Apostles, Apostles, rich moujik. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/56/105/) [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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/56/) / 105 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 105 Long, long ago, Christ and his twelve Apostles were wandering about the world, and they entered into a village one evening, and asked a rich moujik to allow them to spend the night in his house. **Who acts:** twelve Apostles, Apostles, rich moujik · **What happens:** wonder, enter, ask, allow, spend · **To what, where:** Christ, village, rich moujik, Apostles, house This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twelve Apostles, Apostles, rich moujik), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:56:105 # text = Long, long ago, Christ and his twelve Apostles were wandering about the world, and they entered into a village one evening, and asked a rich moujik to allow them to spend the night in his house. 1 Long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 4 ago ago ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 Christ Christ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 Apostles apostle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 wandering wonder VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 13 about about ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 moujik moujik NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 allow allow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 iobj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 spend spend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past · progressive | Christ's twelve Apostles | | | | | about the world | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about world=Stimulus | | 2 | **enter** | past | Apostles *= apostle* | Christ *not said here* | | a village | evening | | tree rules | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Apostles *= apostle* *not said here* | a rich moujik | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent moujik=Recipient | | 4 | **allow** | to-infinitive | Apostles *= apostle* *not said here* | a rich moujik *not said here* | Apostles *= apostle* | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **spend** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a rich moujik *not said here* | | | Christ's house | night | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/56/104/) - next →: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/56/106/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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