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title: Next day Sorrow groaned and said he had a headache, a fearful headac… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Next day Sorrow groaned and said he had a headache, a fearful headache, owing to last night’s treat. Who acts: Sorrow, fearful headache. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 9

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Next day Sorrow groaned and said he had a headache, a fearful headache, owing to last night’s treat.

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**Who acts:** Sorrow, fearful headache · **What happens:** groan, say, have, owe · **To what, where:** headache, treat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sorrow, fearful headache), 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:pg62509:36:9
# text = Next day Sorrow groaned and said he had a headache, a fearful headache, owing to last night’s treat.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Sorrow	Sorrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	groaned	groan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	headache	headache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	headache	headache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	owing	owe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	treat	treat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **groan** | past | Sorrow |  |  |  | day |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sorrow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | past | Sorrow | a headache and a fearful headache |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headache=Patient |
| 4 | **owe** | gerund | a fearful headache *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to last night's treat *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to treat=Goal |

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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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