Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 73

When the rich peasant heard of this, he came to the poor man’s courtyard, tasted the beer, and began to ask the poor man: “Please to tell me how ever you managed to make such magnificent beer?”

Who acts: rich peasant, peasant, poor man · What happens: hear, come, taste, begin, ask, tell · To what, where: courtyard, beer, poor man, peasant, such magnificent beer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich peasant, peasant, poor man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peasant	det
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 peasant	amod
4	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	advcl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 heard	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	16 courtyard	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 courtyard	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 man	case
16	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tasted	punct
18	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 beer	det
20	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tasted	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 began	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 ask	mark
25	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ask	obj
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 tell	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 tell	punct
31	Please	please	INTJ	_	33 tell	discourse
32	to	to	PART	_	33 tell	mark
33	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 came	conj
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 tell	iobj
35	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	36 ever	advmod
36	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	38 managed	advmod
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 managed	nsubj
38	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 tell	advcl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 make	mark
40	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 managed	xcomp
41	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 beer	amod
42	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 beer	amod
43	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 make	obj
44	?	?	PUNCT	_	33 tell	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	33 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the rich peasant					of this	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of this=Stimulus
2	come	past	peasant			the poor man's courtyard			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to courtyard=Initial_Location
3	taste	past	peasant not said here	the beer					vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme beer=Attribute
4	begin	past	peasant not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	peasant not said here		the poor man				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	peasant not said here		peasant				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
7	manage in a quote	past	the poor man = man				ever		vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	make in a quote	to-infinitive	the poor man = man not said here	such magnificent beer					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset beer=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 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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 73

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 73