Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 40

While he was trying his luck in milking, and managing the matter very clumsily, the uneasy beast began to think him very troublesome; and at last gave him such a kick on the head as knocked him down; and there he lay a long while senseless.

Who acts: heat, uneasy beast · What happens: try, manage, begin, think, give, knock down · To what, where: luck, milking, matter, heat, last

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 (heat, uneasy 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 trying	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trying	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trying	aux
4	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 began	advcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 luck	nmod:poss
6	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trying	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 milking	case
8	milking	milking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trying	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 managing	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 managing	cc
11	managing	manage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 trying	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 matter	det
13	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 managing	obj
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 clumsily	advmod
15	clumsily	clumsily	ADV	_	11 managing	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 trying	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 beast	det
18	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 beast	amod
19	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 began	nsubj
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	to	to	PART	_	22 think	mark
22	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 think	obj
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 troublesome	advmod
25	troublesome	troublesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 think	xcomp
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 gave	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gave	cc
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 last	case
29	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 gave	obl
30	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 began	parataxis
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gave	iobj
32	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	34 kick	det:predet
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 kick	det
34	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 knocked	parataxis
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 head	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 head	det
37	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 kick	nmod
38	as	as	ADV	_	39 knocked	advmod
39	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 gave	conj
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 knocked	obj
41	down	down	ADP	_	39 knocked	compound:prt
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 lay	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 there	cc
44	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	46 lay	advmod
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 lay	nsubj
46	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 began	parataxis
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 long	det
48	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 lay	advmod
49	while	while	SCONJ	_	50 senseless	mark
50	senseless	senseless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 lay	advcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	heat	heat's luck		milking		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality
2	manage	gerund	heat not said here	the matter			clumsily property	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Theme
3	begin	past	the uneasy beast					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the uneasy beast not said here	heat			troublesome property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
5	give	past			heat	last		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at last=Asset
6	knock down	past		heat				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
7	lie	past	heat			there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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