Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 79

“How should we not come back?—all the bees from every part of the world, visible and invisible, flew round us, and they stung us till our blood flowed.”

Who acts: we, foals, blood · What happens: not come back, fly, sting, flow · To what, where: us

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 (we, foals, blood), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 come	advmod
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 come	advmod
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 bees	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 bees	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bees	det
12	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	parataxis
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 part	case
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 part	det
15	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bees	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 world	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 world	det
18	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 part	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 visible	punct
20	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 flew	advcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 invisible	cc
22	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 visible	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 flew	punct
24	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bees	parataxis
25	round	round	ADP	_	26 us	case
26	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 flew	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stung	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 stung	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stung	nsubj
30	stung	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 flew	conj
31	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 stung	obj
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	35 flowed	mark
33	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 blood	nmod:poss
34	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 flowed	nsubj
35	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 stung	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not come back in a quote	should	we		all bees from every part of the world parataxis	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly in a quote	past			round us	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round we=Trajectory
3	sting in a quote	past	foals = foal	us		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer
4	flow in a quote	past	our blood			vn appear-48.1.1 «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 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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 79

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 79