--- title: So he turned his steps to the mountains, ascended one side and desce… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: So he turned his steps to the mountains, ascended one side and descended the other, still going northward till his strength began to fail, and not a house or village could be seen. Who acts: snow, strength. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/204/15/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/204/) / 15 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 15 So he turned his steps to the mountains, ascended one side and descended the other, still going northward till his strength began to fail, and not a house or village could be seen. **Who acts:** snow, strength · **What happens:** turn, ascend, descend, go, begin, fail · **To what, where:** steps, mountains, other, house This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow, strength), 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:pg27200:204:15 # text = So he turned his steps to the mountains, ascended one side and descended the other, still going northward till his strength began to fail, and not a house or village could be seen. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 ascended ascend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 descended descend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 still still ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 20 northward northward ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 till till SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 fail fail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | past | snow | snow's steps | | the mountains and ascended one side | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent step=Theme to mountain=Trajectory | | 2 | **ascend** | participle | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **descend** | past | snow *not said here* | the other | | | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location other=Theme | | 4 | **go** | gerund | snow *not said here* | | | | still | northward *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **begin** | past | snow's strength | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **fail** | to-infinitive | snow's strength *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **see** | could · passive | | a house or village | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 8 | **step** | | snow | | | | | | nom step «act 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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/204/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/204/16/) - ↑ back to [Under the Willow-tree, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/204/)