Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 81

What had made that little mound of earth between two of the stones?

What happens: make · To what, where: little mound

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 mound	mark
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mound	amod
6	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 earth	case
8	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mound	nmod
9	between	between	ADP	_	10 two	case
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 earth	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 stones	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stones	det
13	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 two	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · perfect · passive		little mound of earth between two of the stones					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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