Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 171
"Don't disturb my honey, Prince Ivan!" exclaims the queen bee; "some time or other I'll do you a good turn."
Who acts: queen bee · What happens: not disturb, exclaim, do · To what, where: honey, good turn, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen bee), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 disturb | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 disturb | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 disturb | advmod |
| 4 | disturb | disturb | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 exclaims | parataxis |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 honey | nmod:poss |
| 6 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 disturb | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ivan | punct |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ivan | compound |
| 9 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 honey | appos |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 disturb | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 disturb | punct |
| 12 | exclaims | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bee | det |
| 14 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bee | compound |
| 15 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 exclaims | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 time | punct |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 do | obl |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 other | cc |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 time | conj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 do | nsubj |
| 23 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | aux |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 exclaims | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 do | iobj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 turn | det |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 turn | amod |
| 28 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 do | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 exclaims | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 exclaims | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not disturb in a quote | infinitive · do-support | my honey | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus honey=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | present | the queen bee | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | future | the queen bee = bee | a good turn | you | time | tree rules |
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.
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