--- title: These meadows were encircled by lofty hills, which receded a little… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: These meadows were encircled by lofty hills, which receded a little in the centre, so that the most beautifully formed of Swiss mountains--the snow-crowned Jungfrau--could be distinctly seen glittering in the distance. Who acts: lofty hills. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/119/) [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/) / [IV. Babette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/) / 119 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 119 These meadows were encircled by lofty hills, which receded a little in the centre, so that the most beautifully formed of Swiss mountains--the snow-crowned Jungfrau--could be distinctly seen glittering in the distance. **Who acts:** lofty hills · **What happens:** encircle, recede, form, crown, see, glitter · **To what, where:** meadows, little, centre This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lofty hills), 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:pg27200:55:119 # text = These meadows were encircled by lofty hills, which receded a little in the centre, so that the most beautifully formed of Swiss mountains--the snow-crowned Jungfrau--could be distinctly seen glittering in the distance. 1 These this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 meadows meadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 encircled encircle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 lofty lofty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 receded recede VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 22 mark _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 fixed _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 21 advmod _ _ 21 beautifully beautifully ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 formed form VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 Swiss Swiss ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 -- -- PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 28 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 crowned crown VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 amod _ _ 31 Jungfrau Jungfrau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 -- -- PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux:pass _ _ 35 distinctly distinctly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 37 glittering glitter VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 xcomp _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **encircle** | past · passive | lofty hills | this meadows | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | | 2 | **recede** | past | lofty hills | a little | | the centre | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **form** | participle | lofty hills *not said here* | | | | | of Swiss mountains the crowned Jungfrau; beautifully *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **crown** | participle | | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **see** | could · passive | lofty hills *not said here* | | | | | distinctly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **glitter** | gerund | lofty hills *not said here* | | | | | in the distance | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=Location | 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 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/118/) - next →: [sentence 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/120/) - ↑ back to [IV. Babette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/)