The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 189
‘Don’t disturb my honey, Prince Ivan!’ exclaims the queen-bee; ‘some time or other I’ll do you a good turn.’
Who acts: I, time · What happens: not disturb, exclaim, 'll, do · To what, where: honey, queen bee, time, you
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, time), 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 | 16 bee | det |
| 14 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bee | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 queen | punct |
| 16 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 exclaims | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 do | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 time | punct |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 do | nsubj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 other | cc |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | conj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 ’ll | nsubj |
| 24 | ’ll | 'll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 time | acl:relcl |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 exclaims | conj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 do | obj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 turn | det |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 turn | amod |
| 29 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 do | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 exclaims | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 exclaims | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not disturb | 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 NP.topic»: agent=Agent bee=Topic | |||||
| 3 | 'll | present | I | some time not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | present | some time | you | a good turn obl:unmarked | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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