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title: On his way he passed the palace of the Nightingale Robber, and as so… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On his way he passed the palace of the Nightingale Robber, and as soon as he came up to the Robber’s palace the windows were opened and out of these windows the Nightingale Robber’s three daughters were looking. Who acts: Nightingale, three daughters. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afan
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 84

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On his way he passed the palace of the Nightingale Robber, and as soon as he came up to the Robber’s palace the windows were opened and out of these windows the Nightingale Robber’s three daughters were looking.

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**Who acts:** Nightingale, three daughters · **What happens:** pass, come up, open, look · **To what, where:** palace, way, windows

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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 (Nightingale, three daughters), 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:pg62509:31:84
# text = On his way he passed the palace of the Nightingale Robber, and as soon as he came up to the Robber’s palace the windows were opened and out of these windows the Nightingale Robber’s three daughters were looking.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Robber	Robber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Robber	Robber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Robber	Robber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’s	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
40	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | Nightingale | the palace of the Nightingale Robber |  | Nightingale's way |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent palace=Theme on way=Destination |
| 2 | **come up** | past | Nightingale |  |  | the Robber's palace |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **open** | past · passive |  | the windows |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | past · progressive | the Nightingale Robber's three daughters |  |  |  |  | out this windows | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent out window=Theme |

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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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