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title: Taking it with grateful thanks, Dummling went up the flight of steps… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Taking it with grateful thanks, Dummling went up the flight of steps, and was once more in the Palace courtyard. 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 19

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Taking it with grateful thanks, Dummling went up the flight of steps, and was once more in the Palace courtyard.

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**Who acts:** Dummling · **What happens:** take, go up, be · **To what, where:** carpet, flight, Palace courtyard

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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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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:10:19
# text = Taking it with grateful thanks, Dummling went up the flight of steps, and was once more in the Palace courtyard.
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	1	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	Dummling	Dummling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	advmod	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** 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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