--- title: When they had climbed a hill which lay before them the prince saw in… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When they had climbed a hill which lay before them the prince saw in the distance the house of his master, but it was so surrounded with buildings of all kinds that the place looked more like a village or even a small town. Who acts: hill, prince, buildings, place. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Bo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/9/73/) [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 Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Grateful Prince, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/9/) / 73 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 73 When they had climbed a hill which lay before them the prince saw in the distance the house of his master, but it was so surrounded with buildings of all kinds that the place looked more like a village or even a small town. **Who acts:** hill, prince, buildings, place · **What happens:** climb, lie, see, surround, look · **To what, where:** dozens, hill This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (hill, prince, buildings, place), 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:pg641:9:73 # text = When they had climbed a hill which lay before them the prince saw in the distance the house of his master, but it was so surrounded with buildings of all kinds that the place looked more like a village or even a small town. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 climbed climb VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 before before ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 buildings building NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl:agent _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 32 det _ _ 32 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 37 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 36 advmod _ _ 38 like like ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 or or CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 42 even even ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **climb** | past · perfect · passive | | dozens *= dozen* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **lie** | past | a hill | | | | before dozens *= dozen* | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=Location | | 3 | **see** | past | the prince | | | | | in the distance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **surround** | past · passive | buildings of all kinds | hill | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | | 5 | **look** | past | the place | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/9/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/9/74/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Prince, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/9/)