English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 56

Briefly put, Mr. MacRitchie's view is that the elves, trolls, and fairies represented in popular tradition are really the mound-dwellers, whose remains have been discovered in some abundance in the form of green hillocks, which have been artificially raised over a long and low passage leading to a central chamber open to the sky.

Who acts: you, fairies, long passage, MacRitchie · What happens: put, be, represent, discover, raise, lead · To what, where: view, elves, fairies, mound dwellers, remains, abundance

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fairies, long passage, MacRitchie), 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	Briefly	briefly	ADV	_	2 put	advmod
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct
4	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 MacRitchie	nmod:desc
5	MacRitchie	MacRitchie	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 view	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 MacRitchie	case
7	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 elves	cop
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 elves	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 elves	det
11	elves	elf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 view	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 trolls	punct
13	trolls	troll	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 elves	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dwellers	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 dwellers	cc
16	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 dwellers	nsubj
17	represented	represent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 fairies	acl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 tradition	case
19	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tradition	amod
20	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 represented	obl
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 dwellers	cop
22	really	really	ADV	_	26 dwellers	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 dwellers	det
24	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dwellers	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 mound	punct
26	dwellers	dweller	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 elves	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 discovered	punct
28	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	29 remains	nmod:poss
29	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	32 discovered	nsubj:pass
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 discovered	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 discovered	aux:pass
32	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 dwellers	acl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 abundance	case
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 abundance	det
35	abundance	abundance	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 discovered	obl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 form	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 form	det
38	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 discovered	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 hillocks	case
40	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 hillocks	amod
41	hillocks	hillock	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 form	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 raised	punct
43	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 raised	nsubj:pass
44	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 raised	aux
45	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 raised	aux:pass
46	artificially	artificially	ADV	_	47 raised	advmod
47	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 hillocks	acl:relcl
48	over	over	ADP	_	53 passage	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 passage	det
50	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 passage	amod
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 low	cc
52	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 long	conj
53	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 raised	obl
54	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	53 passage	acl
55	to	to	ADP	_	58 chamber	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 chamber	det
57	central	central	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 chamber	amod
58	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 leading	obl
59	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 chamber	amod
60	to	to	ADP	_	62 sky	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 sky	det
62	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 open	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	MacRitchie Mr.'s view		briefly property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent view=Goal
2	is a	present		the elves and trolls and the mound dwellers			tree rules
3	represent	participle		fairies not said here		in popular tradition	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in tradition=Attribute
4	is a	present	fairies	the mound dwellers			tree rules
5	discover	present · perfect · passive		remains	some abundance	in the form of green hillocks	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
6	raise	present · perfect · passive		green hillocks	a long passage	artificially property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over passage=Destination
7	lead	gerund	a long passage not said here			to a central chamber	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to chamber=Patient
8	view		MacRitchie Mr.				nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
9	form			green hillocks			nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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