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title: Then Dummling again descended to the large toad and made known to he… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 35

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

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

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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.

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**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:pg11027:10:35
# text = Then Dummling again descended to the large toad and made known to her that he wished to find the most beautiful woman alive.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Dummling	Dummling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	descended	descend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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.

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**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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