Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 29

Then the youngest son descended the steps as before, and upon seeing the large toad he talked with her, and told her what he desired.

Who acts: youngest son, toad · What happens: descend, see, talk, tell, desire · To what, where: steps, large toad, flew · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (youngest son, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 descended	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 son	amod
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 descended	nsubj
5	descended	descend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 steps	det
7	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 descended	obj
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 before	advmod
9	before	before	ADV	_	5 descended	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 talked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 talked	cc
12	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	13 seeing	mark
13	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 talked	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 toad	det
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 toad	amod
16	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seeing	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 talked	nsubj
18	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 descended	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 talked	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 told	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 told	cc
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 descended	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	iobj
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 desired	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 desired	nsubj
27	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 told	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 descended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	descend	past	the youngest son	the steps		then	before property	vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme
2	see	gerund	toad not said here	the large toad				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer toad=Stimulus
3	talk	past	toad				with flew	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with she=Co-Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	the youngest son not said here		flew			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	desire	past	toad					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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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