Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 38

Last of all came the rich neighbor, begging to know how such wonderful beer was brewed.

Who acts: Last · What happens: come, beg, know, brew · To what, where: such wonderful beer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (Last), 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	Last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Last	nmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 neighbor	det
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 neighbor	amod
7	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 begging	punct
9	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 came	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 know	mark
11	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 begging	xcomp
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 brewed	advmod
13	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 beer	amod
14	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 beer	amod
15	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 brewed	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 brewed	aux:pass
17	brewed	brew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 know	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	past	Last of all		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	beg speech: request	gerund	Last of all not said here		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	Last of all not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	brew	past · passive		such wonderful beer	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product

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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