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title: “When I came to the foot of those hills which lie outside the city I… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “When I came to the foot of those hills which lie outside the city I saw Gul dismount and go towards a house which some negroes have built there. Who acts: Tiger, hills. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 109

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“When I came to the foot of those hills which lie outside the city I saw Gul dismount and go towards a house which some negroes have built there.

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**Who acts:** Tiger, hills · **What happens:** come, lie, see, dismount, go, build · **To what, where:** foot, city, Gul, house

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiger, hills), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg3282:5:109
# text = “When I came to the foot of those hills which lie outside the city I saw Gul dismount and go towards a house which some negroes have built there.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	Gul	Gul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	dismount	dismount	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
22	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	negroes	negro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
30	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | past | Tiger |  |  | the foot of that hills |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **lie** *in a quote* | present | that hills |  |  | the city |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside city=Location |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | past | Tiger | Gul |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gul=Stimulus |
| 4 | **dismount** *in a quote* | infinitive | Tiger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | Tiger *not said here* |  |  | a house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards house=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **build** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | a house |  | there |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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.

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**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.

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