Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 35
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 · What happens: begin, groan, ache, have, drink · To what, where: head, drink
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.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Woe | Woe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | groaning | groan | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 began | xcomp |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 head | punct |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 groaning | obj |
| 10 | ached | ache | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 head | acl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 drinking | case |
| 12 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drinking | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 yesterday | case |
| 14 | drinking | drinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ached | obl |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 have | cc |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 bade | advmod |
| 18 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 have | nsubj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 master | det |
| 20 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 have | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 master | nmod |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 drink | det |
| 26 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 have | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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 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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