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title: His way led up a hill, on the top of which sat a powerful giant, who… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His way led up a hill, on the top of which sat a powerful giant, who was calmly surveying the landscape. Who acts: way, top, powerful giant. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 23

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His way led up a hill, on the top of which sat a powerful giant, who was calmly surveying the landscape.

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**Who acts:** way, top, powerful giant · **What happens:** lead up, sit, survey · **To what, where:** hill, top, powerful giant, landscape

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, top, powerful giant), 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:pg503:42:23
# text = His way led up a hill, on the top of which sat a powerful giant, who was calmly surveying the landscape.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	surveying	survey	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	landscape	landscape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead up** | past | field's way | a hill |  | the top |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | past | the top | a powerful giant |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location giant=Theme |
| 3 | **survey** | past · progressive | a powerful giant | the landscape |  |  |  | calmly *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landscape=Theme |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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