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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 climbed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 climbed	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 climbed	aux
4	climbed	climb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hill	det
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbed	obj
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lay	nsubj
8	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hill	acl:relcl
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lay	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 prince	det
12	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lay	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 distance	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 distance	det
16	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 house	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 distance	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 master	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 master	nmod:poss
21	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 house	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 surrounded	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 surrounded	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 surrounded	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 surrounded	aux:pass
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 surrounded	advmod
27	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 climbed	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 buildings	case
29	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 surrounded	obl:agent
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 kinds	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 kinds	det
32	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 buildings	nmod
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 looked	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 place	det
35	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 looked	nsubj
36	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 kinds	advcl
37	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 looked	advmod
38	like	like	ADP	_	40 village	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 village	det
40	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 more	obl
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 town	cc
42	even	even	ADV	_	45 town	advmod
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 town	det
44	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 town	amod
45	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 village	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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.

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