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title: So he buried him outside the castle walls within sight of the great… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Beth Gellert, with its dependency tree and 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 22

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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.

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

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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.

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**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:pg7885:25:22
# text = 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.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	within	within	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Snowdon	Snowdon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	passer	passer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	parataxis	_	_
30	over	over	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	cairn	cairn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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