Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 103
The Prince, however, wished to hear the whistle of the Robber-Nightingale.
Who acts: Robber Nightingale · What happens: wish, hear, whistle · To what, where: Prince, whistle
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.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 wished | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hear | mark |
| 8 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wished | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 whistle | det |
| 10 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hear | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Nightingale | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Nightingale | det |
| 13 | Robber | Robber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Nightingale | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Robber | punct |
| 15 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 whistle | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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.
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