Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 20

He caused there a hillock, round and green, to be dug out of the middle, and the hole thus made to be covered carefully over so that a little company could dwell there together.

Who acts: Malcolm, hole, little company · What happens: cause, dig out, make, cover, dwell · To what, where: hillock, middle, hole

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Malcolm, hole, little company), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caused	nsubj
2	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 caused	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hillock	det
5	hillock	hillock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caused	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 round	punct
7	round	round	ADV	_	2 caused	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 green	cc
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 round	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dug	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	13 dug	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 dug	aux:pass
13	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 caused	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 middle	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 middle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 middle	det
17	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dug	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 made	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hole	det
21	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	nsubj:pass
22	thus	thus	ADV	_	23 made	advmod
23	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 dug	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	26 covered	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 covered	aux:pass
26	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 made	xcomp
27	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	28 over	advmod
28	over	over	ADV	_	26 covered	advmod
29	so	so	SCONJ	_	35 dwell	mark
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 dwell	mark
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 company	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 company	amod
33	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 dwell	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 dwell	aux
35	dwell	dwell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 covered	advcl
36	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 dwell	advmod
37	together	together	ADV	_	35 dwell	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 caused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cause	past	Malcolm	a hillock	there	round property	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition hillock=Patient
2	dig out	to-infinitive · passive	Malcolm not said here	the middle			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: middle=Theme
3	make	participle · passive		the hole		thus property	tree rules
4	cover	to-infinitive · passive	the hole not said here			over property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»
5	dwell	could	a little company		there	together property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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