Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 24

Hans soon came to himself, and got upon his legs again, sadly vexed, and said to the shepherd, ‘This riding is no joke, when a man has the luck to get upon a beast like this that stumbles and flings him off as if it would break his neck.

Who acts: Hans, riding, man, beast · What happens: come, get, vex, say, be, have · To what, where: Hans, shepherd, joke, luck, neck · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, riding, man, beast), 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	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 came	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 got	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 got	cc
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 legs	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 legs	nmod:poss
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 got	obl
12	again	again	ADV	_	8 got	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 vexed	punct
14	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	15 vexed	advmod
15	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 got	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 shepherd	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 shepherd	det
21	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 joke	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 joke	punct
24	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 riding	det
25	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 joke	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 joke	cop
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 joke	det
28	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 has	punct
30	when	when	SCONJ	_	33 has	mark
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 man	det
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 has	nsubj
33	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 joke	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 luck	det
35	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 has	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 get	mark
37	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 luck	acl
38	upon	upon	ADP	_	40 beast	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 beast	det
40	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 get	obl
41	like	like	ADP	_	42 this	case
42	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 beast	nmod
43	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 stumbles	nsubj
44	stumbles	stumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 beast	acl:relcl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 flings	cc
46	flings	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 stumbles	conj
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 flings	obj
48	off	off	ADP	_	46 flings	compound:prt
49	as	as	SCONJ	_	53 break	mark
50	if	if	SCONJ	_	53 break	mark
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 break	nsubj
52	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 break	aux
53	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 flings	advcl
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 neck	nmod:poss
55	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 break	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Hans		Hans		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial_Location
2	get	past				again	upon Hans's legs	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	vex	participle					sadly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	Hans not said here		the shepherd			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to shepherd=Recipient
5	is a	present	this riding	no joke				tree rules
6	have	present	a man	the luck				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient
7	get	to-infinitive	a man not said here	the luck not said here			upon a beast like this	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
8	stumble	present	a beast like this					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	fling off	present	a beast like this not said here	shepherd				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
10	break	would	riding	shepherd's neck				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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