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title: But the mountain belonged to fierce and huge giants, who lived on it… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the mountain belonged to fierce and huge giants, who lived on it and traded there, and he had not sat long before he saw three of them striding towards him. Who acts: mountain, fierce giants, Hunter, three. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, with it
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 56

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But the mountain belonged to fierce and huge giants, who lived on it and traded there, and he had not sat long before he saw three of them striding towards him.

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**Who acts:** mountain, fierce giants, Hunter, three · **What happens:** belong, live, trade, not sit, see, stride · **To what, where:** mountain, three

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountain, fierce giants, Hunter, three), 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:pg640:10:56
# text = But the mountain belonged to fierce and huge giants, who lived on it and traded there, and he had not sat long before he saw three of them striding towards him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	traded	trade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	sat	sit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
24	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
25	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
28	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	_
31	striding	stride	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	_
32	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | past | the mountain |  |  |  |  | to fierce giants | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | fierce giants |  |  | mountain |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location |
| 3 | **trade** | past | fierce giants *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **sit** | past · perfect | Hunter |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **see** | past | Hunter | three of giants |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **stride** | gerund | three of giants *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards Hunter | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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