Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 44

This frightened him dreadfully, and away he ran to the back door; but there the dog jumped up and bit him in the leg; and as he was crossing over the yard the ass kicked him; and the cock, who had been awakened by the noise, crowed with all his might.

Who acts: This, cat, dog, noise · What happens: frighten, run, jump up, bite, cross, kick · To what, where: cat, leg, ass, cock, noise

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 (This, cat, dog, noise), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 frightened	nsubj
2	frightened	frighten	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 frightened	obj
4	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	_	2 frightened	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ran	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ran	cc
7	away	away	ADV	_	9 ran	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ran	nsubj
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 frightened	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 door	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
12	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 door	compound
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ran	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 jumped	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 jumped	cc
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 jumped	expl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dog	det
18	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 jumped	nsubj
19	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 frightened	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 jumped	compound:prt
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bit	cc
22	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 jumped	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bit	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 leg	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 leg	det
26	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bit	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 kicked	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 kicked	cc
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 crossing	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 crossing	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 crossing	aux
32	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 kicked	advcl
33	over	over	ADP	_	35 yard	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 yard	det
35	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 crossing	obl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ass	det
37	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 crossing	obj
38	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 frightened	conj
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 kicked	obj
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 cock	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 cock	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 cock	det
43	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 frightened	parataxis
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 awakened	punct
45	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 awakened	nsubj:pass
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 awakened	aux
47	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	48 awakened	aux:pass
48	awakened	awaken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 cock	acl:relcl
49	by	by	ADP	_	51 noise	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 noise	det
51	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 awakened	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 crowed	punct
53	crowed	crow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 noise	acl
54	with	with	SCONJ	_	57 might	mark
55	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	57 might	det:predet
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 might	nmod:poss
57	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 crowed	advcl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	frighten	past	This	cat		dreadfully property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
2	run	past	cat			to the back door result; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result
3	jump up	past	the dog		there		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bite	past	the dog not said here	cat	the leg		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in leg=Location
5	cross	past · progressive	cat	the ass		over the yard	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Patient
6	kick	past	This not said here	cat			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
7	awaken	past · perfect · passive	the noise	the cock			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme
8	crow	participle		the noise not said here			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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