Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 32
Then she entreats the Bee to bring vivifying honey.
Who acts: silence · What happens: entreat, bring, vivify · To what, where: Bee, honey
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (silence), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 entreats | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entreats | nsubj |
| 3 | entreats | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Bee | det |
| 5 | Bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entreats | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 bring | mark |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 entreats | advcl |
| 8 | vivifying | vivify | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 bring | xcomp |
| 9 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vivifying | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entreats | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entreat | present | silence | the Bee | then | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Recipient | |||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | silence not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | vivify | gerund | silence not said here | honey | 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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