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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 113

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From the very first day Woe began again to play its usual part, every day it called on the merchant to renew his drinking.

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**Who acts:** Woe, neck, man · **What happens:** begin, play, call, renew, drink · **To what, where:** usual part, merchant, drinking · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woe, neck, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:36:113
# text = From the very first day Woe began again to play its usual part, every day it called on the merchant to renew his drinking.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	Woe	Woe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	renew	renew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	drinking	drinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Woe |  |  |  | again; day |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **play** | to-infinitive | Woe *not said here* | neck's usual part |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | past | neck |  |  | the merchant | day |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **renew** | to-infinitive | neck *not said here* | man's drinking |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent drinking=Patient |
| 5 | **drink** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom drinking «act transitive»: poss=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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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