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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 7

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Then Dummling, sitting down and feeling rather miserable after his brothers had gone, looked about him, and noticed that near to where his feather lay was a trap-door.

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**Who acts:** Dummling, brothers, feather · **What happens:** sit down, feel, go, look, notice, lie · **To what, where:** trap door · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, brothers, feather), 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:pg11027:10:7
# text = Then Dummling, sitting down and feeling rather miserable after his brothers had gone, looked about him, and noticed that near to where his feather lay was a trap-door.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Dummling	Dummling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
8	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
23	near	near	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | gerund | Dummling |  |  |  | then | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **feel** | gerund | Dummling *not said here* |  |  |  |  | miserable *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | past · perfect | Dummling's brothers |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | about Dummling | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme |
| 5 | **notice** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **lie** | past | Dummling's feather |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | past | Dummling's feather *not said here* | a trap door |  |  |  |  | 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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