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title: On the other side of the lake high mountains rose up, and dark woods… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On the other side of the lake high mountains rose up, and dark woods stretched along the banks; over all hung a thick mist, and deep silence reigned everywhere. Who acts: high mountains. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, with its dependency tree an
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 50

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On the other side of the lake high mountains rose up, and dark woods stretched along the banks; over all hung a thick mist, and deep silence reigned everywhere.

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**Who acts:** high mountains · **What happens:** rise up, stretch, hang, reign · **To what, where:** other side, dark woods, thick mist, deep silence

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (high mountains), 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:pg640:25:50
# text = On the other side of the lake high mountains rose up, and dark woods stretched along the banks; over all hung a thick mist, and deep silence reigned everywhere.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
17	along	along	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	reigned	reign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
32	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise up** | past | high mountains |  |  | the other side of the lake |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |
| 2 | **stretch** | participle · passive |  | dark woods |  |  |  | along the banks | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **hang** | past | high mountains *not said here* | a thick mist |  |  |  | all *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mist=Patient |
| 4 | **reign** | participle | high mountains *not said here* | deep silence |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | tree rules |

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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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