--- title: Briefly put, Mr. MacRitchie's view is that the elves, trolls, and fa… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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 c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/71/56/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [XXI. Childe Rowland.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/71/) / 56 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7439:71:56 # text = 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. 1 Briefly briefly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 put put VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:desc _ _ 5 MacRitchie MacRitchie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 view view NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 elves elf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 trolls troll NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 16 fairies fairy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 17 represented represent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 tradition tradition NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 22 really really ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 mound mound NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 dwellers dweller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 remains remains NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 discovered discover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 35 det _ _ 35 abundance abundance NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 hillocks hillock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 43 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 47 nsubj:pass _ _ 44 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 45 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 47 aux:pass _ _ 46 artificially artificially ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 raised raise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 acl:relcl _ _ 48 over over ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 50 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 conj _ _ 53 passage passage NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 54 leading lead VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 53 acl _ _ 55 to to ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 56 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 57 central central ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 58 chamber chamber NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obl _ _ 59 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 60 to to ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 61 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 62 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 63 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/71/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/71/57/) - ↑ back to [XXI. 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