Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 35

Then Dummling again descended to the large toad and made known to her that he wished to find the most beautiful woman alive.

Who acts: Dummling · What happens: descend, make, know, wish, find · To what, where: woman, beautiful woman

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), 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	4 descended	advmod
2	Dummling	Dummling	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 descended	nsubj
3	again	again	ADV	_	4 descended	advmod
4	descended	descend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 toad	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 toad	det
7	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 toad	amod
8	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 descended	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 made	cc
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 descended	conj
11	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 made	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	obl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 wished	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wished	nsubj
16	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 made	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 find	mark
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wished	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 woman	det
20	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	21 beautiful	advmod
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 woman	amod
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 find	obj
23	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 find	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 descended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	descend	past	Dummling			then; again	to the large toad	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to toad=Location
2	make	past	Dummling not said here		woman			tree rules
3	know	participle	Dummling not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	wish	past	Dummling					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	Dummling not said here	the beautiful woman			alive property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic

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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