--- title: For, the first time he came up, the great hills were covered with th… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: For, the first time he came up, the great hills were covered with thick forests, in which wild animals roamed, and Rübezahl watched the fierce fights between bear and bison, or chased the grey wolves, or amused himself by rolling great rocks down into the desolate valleys, to hear the thunder of the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/30/97/) [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 Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [The Brown Fairy Book, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/30/) / 97 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 97 For, the first time he came up, the great hills were covered with thick forests, in which wild animals roamed, and Rübezahl watched the fierce fights between bear and bison, or chased the grey wolves, or amused himself by rolling great rocks down into the desolate valleys, to hear the thunder of their fall echoing among the hills. **Who acts:** thing, Rübezahl, fall · **What happens:** come up, cover, roam, watch, chase, amuse · **To what, where:** first time, great hills, wild animals, fierce fights, grey wolves, thing This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, Rübezahl, fall), 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:pg3282:30:97 # text = For, the first time he came up, the great hills were covered with thick forests, in which wild animals roamed, and Rübezahl watched the fierce fights between bear and bison, or chased the grey wolves, or amused himself by rolling great rocks down into the desolate valleys, to hear the thunder of their fall echoing among the hills. 1 For for ADP IN _ 5 case _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 amod _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 up up ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 22 det _ _ 21 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 23 roamed roam VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 Rübezahl Rübezahl PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 watched watch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 fights fight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 31 between between ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 bison bison NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 chased chase VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 amused amuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 44 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 43 obj _ _ 45 by by SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 46 rolling roll VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 43 advcl _ _ 47 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ _ 49 down down ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 50 into into ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 52 desolate desolate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 53 compound _ _ 53 valleys valley NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 55 to to PART TO _ 56 mark _ _ 56 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 conj _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obj _ _ 59 of of ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 61 nmod:poss _ _ 61 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nmod _ _ 62 echoing echo VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 61 acl _ _ 63 among among ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 64 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 65 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 62 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come up** | past | thing | the first time *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme | | 2 | **cover** | past · passive | | the great hills | | | time | with thick forests which wild animals | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with forest=Theme | | 3 | **roam** | participle | | which wild animals *not said here* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **watch** | past | Rübezahl | the fierce fights | | | | between bear and bison | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Theme | | 5 | **chase** | past | Rübezahl *not said here* | the grey wolves | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme | | 6 | **amuse** | past | Rübezahl *not said here* | thing | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | | 7 | **roll down** | gerund | Rübezahl *not said here* | great rocks | | the desolate valleys | | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent rock=Theme into valley=Trajectory | | 8 | **desolate** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **hear** | to-infinitive | Rübezahl *not said here* | the thunder of hills's fall | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thunder=Stimulus | | 10 | **echo** | gerund | hills's fall *not said here* | | | the hills | | | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among hill=Location | | 11 | **thunder** | | hills's fall | | | | | | nom thunder «event intransitive»: of=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:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/30/96/) - next →: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/30/98/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/30/)