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title: The Prince, however, wished to hear the whistle of the Robber-Nighti… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince, however, wished to hear the whistle of the Robber-Nightingale. Who acts: Robber Nightingale. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 103

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The Prince, however, wished to hear the whistle of the Robber-Nightingale.

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**Who acts:** Robber Nightingale · **What happens:** wish, hear, whistle · **To what, where:** Prince, whistle

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Robber Nightingale), 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:pg62509:31:103
# text = The Prince, however, wished to hear the whistle of the Robber-Nightingale.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	wished	wish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	Robber	Robber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | participle · passive |  | the Prince |  |  |  | however *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive |  | the whistle of the Robber Nightingale |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whistle=Stimulus |
| 3 | **whistle** |  | the Robber Nightingale |  |  |  |  |  | nom whistle «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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