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title: Then the queen-bee answered him, “Do not touch my honey, Iván Tsarév… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 40

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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.”

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**Who acts:** queen bee · **What happens:** answer, not touch, be · **To what, where:** bird, honey · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:24:40
# text = 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.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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