Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 36

The ass brayed, the dog barked, the cat mewed, and the cock screamed; and then they all broke through the window at once, and came tumbling into the room, amongst the broken glass, with a most hideous clatter!

Who acts: ass, dog, cat, cock, forefeet · What happens: bray, bark, mew, scream, break, come · To what, where: window, room

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, dog, cat, cock), 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	3 brayed	nsubj
3	brayed	bray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 barked	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 barked	nsubj
7	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brayed	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mewed	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mewed	nsubj
11	mewed	mew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 barked	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 screamed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 screamed	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cock	det
15	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 screamed	nsubj
16	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 mewed	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 broke	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 broke	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 broke	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 broke	nsubj
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 they	det
22	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brayed	conj
23	through	through	ADP	_	25 window	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 window	det
25	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 broke	obl
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 once	case
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 broke	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 came	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 came	cc
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brayed	conj
31	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 came	xcomp
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 room	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 room	det
34	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tumbling	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 glass	punct
36	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	39 glass	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 glass	det
38	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 glass	amod
39	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 clatter	punct
41	with	with	ADP	_	45 clatter	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 clatter	det
43	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	44 hideous	advmod
44	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 clatter	amod
45	clatter	clatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	obl
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 brayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	bray	past	the ass				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bark	past	the dog				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mew	past	the cat				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	scream speech: express	past	the cock				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	break	past	forefeet = forefoot	the window	then		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location
6	come	past	the ass not said here			amongst the broken glass; with a hideous clatter	tree rules
7	tumble	gerund	the ass not said here	the room			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
8	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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