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title: ‘Don’t disturb my honey, Prince Ivan!’ exclaims the queen-bee; ‘some… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘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. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 189

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‘Don’t disturb my honey, Prince Ivan!’ exclaims the queen-bee; ‘some time or other I’ll do you a good turn.’

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**Who acts:** I, time · **What happens:** not disturb, exclaim, 'll, do · **To what, where:** honey, queen bee, time, you

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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.

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**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:pg540:7:189
# text = ‘Don’t disturb my honey, Prince Ivan!’ exclaims the queen-bee; ‘some time or other I’ll do you a good turn.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	disturb	disturb	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	exclaims	exclaim	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’ll	'll	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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