--- title: Not till he caught sight of the lofty mountains did the world appear… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Not till he caught sight of the lofty mountains did the world appear more free to him; his thoughts were attracted to outer objects, and tears came into his eyes. Who acts: Kjoge, sight, world, tears. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, pa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/82/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Under the Willow-tree, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/) / 82 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 82 Not till he caught sight of the lofty mountains did the world appear more free to him; his thoughts were attracted to outer objects, and tears came into his eyes. **Who acts:** Kjoge, sight, world, tears · **What happens:** not catch, do, appear, attract, come, sight · **To what, where:** thoughts, eyes, lofty mountains This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kjoge, sight, world, tears), 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:pg27200:203:82 # text = Not till he caught sight of the lofty mountains did the world appear more free to him; his thoughts were attracted to outer objects, and tears came into his eyes. 1 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 2 till till SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 lofty lofty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 10 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 appear appear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 14 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 amod _ _ 15 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 attracted attract VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 outer outer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 objects object NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **catch** | past | Kjoge | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **do** | past | sight of the lofty mountains | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **appear** | present | the world | | | | | free *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **attract** | past · passive | | Kjoge's thoughts | | | | to outer objects *result* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to object=Result | | 5 | **come** | past | tears | | | Kjoge's eyes | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into eye=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **sight** | | | the lofty mountains | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **think** | | Kjoge | | | | | | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/81/) - next →: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/83/) - ↑ back to [Under the Willow-tree, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/)