--- title: The ass placed himself upright on his hind legs, with his forefeet r… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The ass placed himself upright on his hind legs, with his forefeet resting against the window; the dog got upon his back; the cat scrambled up to the dog’s shoulders, and the cock flew up and sat upon the cat’s head. Who acts: ass, forefeet, dog, cat. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Gri --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/5/34/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [The Travelling Musicians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/5/) / 34 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 34 The ass placed himself upright on his hind legs, with his forefeet resting against the window; the dog got upon his back; the cat scrambled up to the dog’s shoulders, and the cock flew up and sat upon the cat’s head. **Who acts:** ass, forefeet, dog, cat, cock · **What happens:** place, rest, get, scramble up, fly up, sit · **To what, where:** ass, hind legs, window, shoulders, head 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, forefeet, dog, cat), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2591:5:34 # text = The ass placed himself upright on his hind legs, with his forefeet resting against the window; the dog got upon his back; the cat scrambled up to the dog’s shoulders, and the cock flew up and sat upon the cat’s head. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ass ass NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 placed place VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obj _ _ 5 upright upright ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 hind hind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 forefeet forefoot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 14 resting rest VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 15 against against ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 upon upon ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 scrambled scramble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ’s 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 40 up up ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 43 upon upon ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ’s 's PART POS _ 45 case _ _ 47 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **place** | past | the ass | ass | | ass's hind legs and ass's forefeet | | upright *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on leg=Destination | | 2 | **rest** | gerund | ass's forefeet *not said here* | | | the window | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against window=Location | | 3 | **get** | past | the dog | | | | | upon ass's back | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **scramble up** | past | the cat | | | the dog's shoulders | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shoulder=Destination | | 5 | **fly up** | past | the cock | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **sit** | past | the cock *not said here* | | | the cat's head | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon head=Location | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/5/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/5/35/) - ↑ back to [The Travelling Musicians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/5/)