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description: The next day Woe began groaning--its head ached from yesterday's drinking--and again bade the master of the house have a drink. Who acts: Woe, bade, yesterday. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, with its dependency tree
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 35

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The next day Woe began groaning--its head ached from yesterday's drinking--and again bade the master of the house have a drink.

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**Who acts:** Woe, bade, yesterday · **What happens:** begin, groan, ache, have, drink · **To what, where:** head, drink

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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, bade, yesterday), 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:pg22373:36:35
# text = The next day Woe began groaning--its head ached from yesterday's drinking--and again bade the master of the house have a drink.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	Woe	Woe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	groaning	groan	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	ached	ache	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	drinking	drinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Woe |  |  |  | day |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **groan** | gerund | Woe *not said here* | house's head |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 3 | **ache** | participle |  | house's head *not said here* |  |  |  | from yesterday's drinking | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Patient from drinking=Stimulus |
| 4 | **have** | infinitive | bade | a drink |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient |
| 5 | **drink** |  | yesterday |  |  |  |  |  | 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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