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title: On lifting this up he perceived a flight of steps, down which he went. — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: On lifting this up he perceived a flight of steps, down which he went. 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 8

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On lifting this up he perceived a flight of steps, down which he went.

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**Who acts:** Dummling · **What happens:** lift up, perceive, go · **To what, where:** this, flight

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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:pg11027:10:8
# text = On lifting this up he perceived a flight of steps, down which he went.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	lifting	lift	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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