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title: Soon afterwards, as they were passing by a farmyard, they saw a cock… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Travelling Musicians, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 15

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2591:5:15
# text = 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.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	farmyard	farmyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	perched	perch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	parataxis	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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