Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 15

Soon afterwards, as they were passing by a farmyard, they saw a cock perched upon a gate, and screaming out with all his might and main.

Who acts: mice · What happens: pass, see, perch, scream out · To what, where: cock, gate

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Travelling Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mice), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 afterwards	advmod
2	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	13 saw	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 afterwards	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 passing	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 passing	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 passing	aux
7	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 saw	advcl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 farmyard	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 farmyard	det
10	farmyard	farmyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 passing	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cock	det
15	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obj
16	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 cock	acl
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 gate	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 gate	det
19	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 perched	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 screaming	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 screaming	cc
22	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 saw	parataxis
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 screaming	compound:prt
24	with	with	SCONJ	_	27 might	mark
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 might	det:predet
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 might	nmod:poss
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 screaming	aux
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 main	cc
29	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 might	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past · progressive	mice = mouse			by a farmyard	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by farmyard=Location
2	see	past	mice = mouse	a cock		afterwards property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cock=Stimulus
3	perch	participle		a cock not said here	a gate		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon gate=Location
4	scream out speech: express	might					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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