--- title: “Fly, dear little bee, towards the east,” said she, “to my beloved R… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Fly, dear little bee, towards the east,” said she, “to my beloved Ratibor, and softly hum into his ear that I love him only, but that I am a captive in the gnome’s palace under the mountains. Who acts: Fly. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fly), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3282:32:4 # text = “Fly, dear little bee, towards the east,” said she, “to my beloved Ratibor, and softly hum into his ear that I love him only, but that I am a captive in the gnome’s palace under the mountains. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Fly fly NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 towards towards ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 “ " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 beloved beloved ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 Ratibor Ratibor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 softly softly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 hum hum VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 but but CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 captive captive NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 parataxis _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 gnome gnome NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’s 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 45 under under ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fly and dear little bee and the east | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hum** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | bee's ear | | softly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into ear=Recipient | | 3 | **love** *in a quote* | present | Fly and dear little bee and the east *= fly* | bee | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Fly and dear little bee and the east *= fly* | a captive | | the gnome's palace under the mountains | | | 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:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/32/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/32/5/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/32/)