Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 40
Then the queen-bee answered him, “Do not touch my honey, Iván Tsarévich; at some time or other I shall be of service to you.”
Who acts: queen bee · What happens: answer, not touch, be · To what, where: bird, honey · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. 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.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 answered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bee | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bee | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 queen | punct |
| 5 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 touch | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 touch | punct |
| 10 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 touch | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 touch | advmod |
| 12 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 answered | ccomp |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 honey | nmod:poss |
| 14 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 touch | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Iván | punct |
| 16 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 honey | appos |
| 17 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Iván | flat |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 service | punct |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 service | obl |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 other | cc |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 time | conj |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 service | nsubj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 service | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 service | cop |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 service | case |
| 28 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 touch | obl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 you | case |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 service | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 touch | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the queen bee | bird | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not touch in a quote | infinitive · do-support | my honey | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme honey=Co-Theme | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | shall | the queen bee = bee | bird | time | of service | 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 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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