--- title: Round the bottom of the hill she went, sobbing and seeking a passage… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Round the bottom of the hill she went, sobbing and seeking a passage over, till at last she came to a smith's house; and the smith promised, if she would serve him seven years, he would make her iron shoon, wherewith she could climb over the glassy hill. Who acts: lady, smith. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, smith), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg14241:17:11 # text = Round the bottom of the hill she went, sobbing and seeking a passage over, till at last she came to a smith's house; and the smith promised, if she would serve him seven years, he would make her iron shoon, wherewith she could climb over the glassy hill. 1 Round round ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 sobbing sob VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 seeking seek VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 passage passage NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 over over ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 till till SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 obl _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 smith smith NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 smith smith NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 if if SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 parataxis _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 parataxis _ _ 44 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 45 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 shoon shoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 48 wherewith wherewith ADV WRB PronType=Int 51 advmod _ _ 49 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 50 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 51 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 conj _ _ 52 over over ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 54 glassy glassy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | lady | | | the bottom of the hill | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round bottom=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **sob** | gerund | lady *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **seek over** | gerund | lady *not said here* | a passage | | | | over *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Theme | | 4 | **come** | past | lady | | | last | | to a smith's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the smith | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **serve** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | lady | smith | | | year | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | | 7 | **make** | would | smith | lady's iron shoon | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoon=Product | | 8 | **climb** | could | lady | | | the glassy hill | | wherewith *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory | 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/17/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/17/12/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/17/)