Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 23

The ass and the dog laid themselves down under a great tree, and the cat climbed up into the branches; while the cock, thinking that the higher he sat the safer he should be, flew up to the very top of the tree, and then, according to his custom, before he went to sleep, looked out on all sides of him to see that everything was well.

Who acts: ass, cat, everything · What happens: lay down, climb up, think, sit, be, fly up · To what, where: guests, great tree, cock, branches, sleep, sides · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (ass, cat, everything), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ass	det
2	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laid	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dog	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ass	conj
6	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 laid	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	6 laid	compound:prt
9	under	under	ADP	_	12 tree	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tree	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tree	amod
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laid	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 climbed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 climbed	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cat	det
16	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 climbed	nsubj
17	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laid	parataxis
18	up	up	ADV	_	17 climbed	advmod
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 branches	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 branches	det
21	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 climbed	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 cock	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 cock	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cock	det
25	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 climbed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thinking	punct
27	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 climbed	advcl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 sat	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 higher	det
30	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 sat	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sat	nsubj
32	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 thinking	ccomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 safer	det
34	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 sat	xcomp
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 be	nsubj
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 be	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 safer	cop
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 flew	punct
39	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sat	conj
40	up	up	ADP	_	39 flew	compound:prt
41	to	to	ADP	_	44 top	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 top	det
43	very	very	ADV	_	44 top	advmod
44	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 flew	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 tree	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 tree	det
47	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 top	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 custom	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 custom	cc
50	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	55 custom	advmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 custom	punct
52	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	55 custom	case
53	to	to	ADP	_	52 according	fixed
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 custom	nmod:poss
55	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laid	parataxis
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 went	punct
57	before	before	SCONJ	_	59 went	mark
58	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 went	nsubj
59	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laid	parataxis
60	to	to	ADP	_	61 sleep	case
61	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 went	obl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 looked	punct
63	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 went	conj
64	out	out	ADP	_	63 looked	compound:prt
65	on	on	ADP	_	67 sides	case
66	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	67 sides	det
67	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 looked	obl
68	of	of	ADP	_	69 him	case
69	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 sides	nmod
70	to	to	PART	_	71 see	mark
71	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	63 looked	advcl
72	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	73 everything	det
73	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	75 well	nsubj
74	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	75 well	cop
75	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	71 see	ccomp
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay down	past	the ass and the dog	guests = guest	a great tree		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme under tree=Destination
2	climb up	past	the cat	the cock	the branches		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into branch=Destination
3	think speech: other	gerund	the cat not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	sit	past	cat				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	infinitive	cat not said here			safe property	tree rules
6	fly up	past	cat not said here			to the top of the tree result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to top=Result
7	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
8	go	past	ass		sleep		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location
9	look out	past	ass not said here		all sides of cat		vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
10	see	to-infinitive	ass not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
11	is	past	everything			well 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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