---
title: The way to the mountain lay straight before him, and when he had cli… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The way to the mountain lay straight before him, and when he had climbed high he caught sight of the roe with the white feet and the spotted sides, on the peak in front. Who acts: way. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/31/16/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/31/) / 16

# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 16

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The way to the mountain lay straight before him, and when he had climbed high he caught sight of the roe with the white feet and the spotted sides, on the peak in front.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** way · **What happens:** lie, climb, catch, spot, sight · **To what, where:** sight, peak, roe

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg3027:31:16
# text = The way to the mountain lay straight before him, and when he had climbed high he caught sight of the roe with the white feet and the spotted sides, on the peak in front.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	climbed	climb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
16	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	roe	roe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	spotted	spot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | the way to the mountain |  |  |  | before crow |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |
| 2 | **climb** | past · perfect | way |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **catch** | past | way | sight of the roe |  | the peak in front |  | with the white feet and the spotted sides | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 4 | **spot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 5 | **sight** |  |  | the roe |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/31/15/)
- next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/31/17/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/31/)