Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 158

Thumbling had great difficulty in working his way out; however, he succeeded so far as to get some room, but, just as he was going to thrust his head out, a new misfortune occurred.

Who acts: great difficulty, pastor, new misfortune · What happens: thumbl, have, work out, succeed, get, go · To what, where: great difficulty, way, room, head

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great difficulty, pastor, new misfortune), 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	Thumbling	thumbl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 difficulty	amod
4	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 working	mark
6	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 difficulty	acl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 way	nmod:poss
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 working	obj
9	out	out	ADV	_	6 working	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 succeeded	punct
11	however	however	ADV	_	14 succeeded	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 however	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 succeeded	nsubj
14	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 far	advmod
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 succeeded	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 get	mark
18	to	to	PART	_	19 get	mark
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 far	advcl
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 room	det
21	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 get	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 occurred	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 occurred	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 going	punct
25	just	just	ADV	_	29 going	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 going	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 going	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 going	aux
29	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 occurred	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 thrust	mark
31	thrust	thrust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 going	xcomp
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 thrust	obj
34	out	out	ADP	_	31 thrust	compound:prt
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 going	punct
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 misfortune	det
37	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 misfortune	amod
38	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 occurred	nsubj
39	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 succeeded	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	thumbl	gerund				tree rules
2	have	past		great difficulty		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Patient
3	work out	gerund	great difficulty not said here	pastor's way	out property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
4	succeed	past	pastor		far, however property	vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	get	to-infinitive	pastor not said here	some room		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer room=Stimulus
6	go	past · progressive	pastor			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	thrust out	to-infinitive	pastor not said here	pastor's head		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
8	occur	past	a new misfortune			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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