--- title: Then she went to her window and called to her all the bees in the wh… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then she went to her window and called to her all the bees in the white world, “Hail, ye bees my servants, do ye build me a church of your white wax, and let it be finished before the morning.” Who acts: Iván, ye. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30, with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/30/66/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/30/) / 66 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 66 Then she went to her window and called to her all the bees in the white world, “Hail, ye bees my servants, do ye build me a church of your white wax, and let it be finished before the morning.” **Who acts:** Iván, ye · **What happens:** go, call, bee, build, let, finish · **To what, where:** servants, bees, Iván, church · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván, ye), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:30:66 # text = Then she went to her window and called to her all the bees in the white world, “Hail, ye bees my servants, do ye build me a church of your white wax, and let it be finished before the morning.” 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 13 det:predet _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 xcomp _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 “ " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Hail hail NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 23 nsubj _ _ 23 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 29 nsubj _ _ 29 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 30 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 wax wax NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 xcomp _ _ 43 before before ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Iván | my servants | | | then | to Iván's window | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | participle | Iván *not said here* | all bees in the white world and Hail | Iván | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | | 3 | **bee** *in a quote* | | ye | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **build** *in a quote* | present · do-support | ye | a church of your white wax | Iván | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary church=Product | | 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | ye *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **finish** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive | | church | | | morning | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/30/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/30/67/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/30/)