Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 8
On lifting this up he perceived a flight of steps, down which he went.
Who acts: Dummling · What happens: lift up, perceive, go · To what, where: this, flight
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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 lifting | mark |
| 2 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 perceived | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 lifting | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 lifting | compound:prt |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 perceived | nsubj |
| 6 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 flight | det |
| 8 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 perceived | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 steps | case |
| 10 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flight | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 went | nsubj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 perceived | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift up | gerund | Dummling not said here | this | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | perceive | past | Dummling | a flight of steps | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer flight=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | past | down property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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