Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 19
Taking it with grateful thanks, Dummling went up the flight of steps, and was once more in the Palace courtyard.
Who acts: Dummling · What happens: take, go up, be · To what, where: carpet, flight, Palace courtyard
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.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg11027:277): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 went | advcl |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Taking | obj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 thanks | case |
| 4 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thanks | amod |
| 5 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 1 Taking | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Taking | punct |
| 7 | Dummling | Dummling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 flight | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flight | det |
| 11 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 steps | case |
| 13 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flight | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 courtyard | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 courtyard | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 courtyard | cop |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 courtyard | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 courtyard | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 courtyard | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 courtyard | det |
| 21 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 courtyard | compound |
| 22 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | Dummling not said here | carpet | with grateful thanks | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | go up | past | Dummling | the flight of steps | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient flight=Extent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Dummling not said here | the Palace courtyard | once property | tree rules |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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