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title: When they looked into it there was filth and dirt, toads, snakes and… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree a
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 155

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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.

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

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:15:155
# text = 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.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	filth	filth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	toads	toad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	20	nsubj	_	_
20	vile	vile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Apostles	Apostle	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Saviour	Saviour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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