Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 40

There came flying bees in countless numbers from all parts of the world, and began stinging us on all sides till the blood came!"

Who acts: blood · What happens: come, fly, begin, sting · To what, where: bees, countless numbers, sides, us

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blood), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 came	expl
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 came	xcomp
4	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flying	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 numbers	case
6	countless	countless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 numbers	amod
7	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flying	obl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 parts	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 parts	det
10	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 numbers	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 world	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 parts	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
17	stinging	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 began	xcomp
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 stinging	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 sides	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 sides	det
21	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 began	obl
22	till	till	SCONJ	_	25 came	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 blood	det
24	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 began	advcl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past			there	tree rules
2	fly	gerund		bees	countless numbers from all parts of the world	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent bee=Theme in number=Location
3	begin	past			all sides	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	sting	gerund		us		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer
5	come	past	the blood			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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