Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 12
The big toad addressed him, asking him what he wanted.
Who acts: big toad, toad · What happens: address, ask, want · To what, where: Dummling
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big toad, toad), 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 | 3 toad | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 toad | amod |
| 3 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 addressed | nsubj |
| 4 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 addressed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 asking | punct |
| 7 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 addressed | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asking | obj |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 asking | obj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wanted | nsubj |
| 11 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 addressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | past | the big toad | Dummling | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the big toad not said here | Dummling | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | want | past | toad | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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