Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 22

So he buried him outside the castle walls within sight of the great mountain of Snowdon, where every passer-by might see his grave, and raised over it a great cairn of stones.

Who acts: Llewelyn, passer · What happens: bury, see, raise, sight · To what, where: wolf, castle walls, grave, great cairn, great mountain

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Beth Gellert. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Llewelyn, passer), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 buried	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 buried	nsubj
3	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 buried	obj
5	outside	outside	ADP	_	8 walls	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 walls	det
7	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walls	compound
8	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 buried	obl
9	within	within	ADP	_	10 sight	case
10	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buried	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 mountain	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mountain	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mountain	amod
14	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sight	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Snowdon	case
16	Snowdon	Snowdon	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 mountain	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 see	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 see	advmod
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 passer	det
20	passer	passer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 see	nsubj
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 see	punct
22	by	by	SCONJ	_	24 see	mark
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 see	aux
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 buried	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 grave	nmod:poss
26	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 see	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 raised	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 raised	cc
29	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 see	parataxis
30	over	over	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 raised	obl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 cairn	det
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 cairn	amod
34	cairn	cairn	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 raised	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 stones	case
36	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 cairn	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 buried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bury	past	Llewelyn	wolf	the castle walls	within sight of the great mountain of Snowdon	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme outside wall=Destination
2	see	might	every passer	Llewelyn's grave			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grave=Stimulus
3	raise	participle		a great cairn of stones		over passer	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cairn=Theme over it=Destination
4	sight			the great mountain of Snowdon			nom sight «cognition 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: «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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