Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 40

The donkey laid himself down upon a heap of straw in the yard, the dog stretched himself upon a mat behind the door, the cat rolled herself up on the hearth before the warm ashes, and the cock perched upon a beam on the top of the house; and, as they were all rather tired with their journey, they soon fell asleep.

Who acts: donkey, dog, cat, cock, robbers · What happens: lay down, stretch, roll up, perch, be, fall · To what, where: Donkey, heap, signal, hearth, top

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 (donkey, 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 donkey	det
2	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 laid	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 laid	compound:prt
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 heap	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 heap	det
8	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 straw	case
10	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heap	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 yard	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 yard	det
13	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 straw	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stretched	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dog	det
16	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stretched	nsubj
17	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	parataxis
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 stretched	obj
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 mat	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 mat	det
21	mat	mat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stretched	obl
22	behind	behind	ADP	_	24 door	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 door	det
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mat	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rolled	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cat	det
27	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rolled	nsubj
28	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stretched	conj
29	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 rolled	obj
30	up	up	ADP	_	28 rolled	compound:prt
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 hearth	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hearth	det
33	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rolled	obl
34	before	before	ADP	_	37 ashes	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ashes	det
36	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 ashes	amod
37	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 rolled	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 perched	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 perched	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 cock	det
41	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 perched	nsubj
42	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 laid	conj
43	upon	upon	ADP	_	45 beam	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 beam	det
45	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 perched	obl
46	on	on	ADP	_	48 top	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 top	det
48	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 perched	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 house	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 house	det
51	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 top	nmod
52	;	;	PUNCT	_	60 tired	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 tired	cc
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 and	punct
55	as	as	SCONJ	_	60 tired	mark
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 tired	nsubj
57	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 tired	cop
58	all	all	ADV	_	60 tired	advmod
59	rather	rather	ADV	_	60 tired	advmod
60	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 laid	parataxis
61	with	with	ADP	_	63 journey	case
62	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 journey	nmod:poss
63	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 tired	obl
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 tired	punct
65	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 fell	nsubj
66	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	67 fell	advmod
67	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 tired	advcl
68	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 fell	xcomp
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	past	the donkey	Donkey	a heap of straw in the yard			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme upon heap=Destination
2	stretch	past	the dog	Donkey			upon a mat behind the door	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	roll up	past	the cat	signal	the hearth	before the warm ashes		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on hearth=Source before ash=Trajectory
4	perch	participle	the cock		the top of the house		upon a beam	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon beam=Location
5	is	past	robbers = robber				with robbers's journey; all, tired property	tree rules
6	fall	past	robbers = robber				asleep, soon property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	journey		robbers = robber					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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