Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 13

Dummling, though rather surprised when he saw the toads, and heard them question him, being good-hearted replied politely--

Who acts: Dummling, eastwards · What happens: see, hear, question, be, reply · To what, where: toads, eastwards, toad

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 (Dummling, eastwards), 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	Dummling	Dummling	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 saw	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 surprised	punct
3	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 surprised	mark
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	5 surprised	advmod
5	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Dummling	appos
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 saw	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 toads	det
10	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 saw	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 heard	cc
13	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	obj
15	question	question	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 heard	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 question	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 good	punct
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 good	cop
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 heard	parataxis
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 good	punct
21	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 good	conj
22	replied	reply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 good	acl
23	politely	politely	ADV	_	22 replied	advmod
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	Dummling	the toads			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer toad=Stimulus
2	hear	past	Dummling not said here	eastwards = eastward			tree rules
3	question speech: other	infinitive	eastwards = eastward not said here		toad		vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	is	gerund				good property	tree rules
5	be						tree rules
6	reply speech: assert	participle				politely property	vn respond-113 «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: «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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