Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 43

Hans told him what had happened, how he was dry, and wanted to milk his cow, but found the cow was dry too.

Who acts: Hans, butcher, cow · What happens: tell, happen, be, want, find · To what, where: butcher, milk · 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, butcher, cow), 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	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 happened	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happened	aux
6	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dry	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 dry	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dry	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dry	cop
11	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 happened	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wanted	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wanted	cc
14	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 milk	mark
16	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wanted	obj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 cow	nmod:poss
18	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wanted	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 found	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 found	cc
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wanted	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cow	det
23	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dry	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dry	cop
25	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 found	ccomp
26	too	too	ADV	_	25 dry	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Hans		butcher		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	happen	past · perfect					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	butcher			dry property	tree rules
4	want	past		milk			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme cow=Attribute
5	find	past					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	the cow			dry property	tree rules

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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