Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 125

"True for you, Dudden, and let me thank you kindly; the turn was good, if the will was ill.

Who acts: Dudden, turn · What happens: let, thank, be · To what, where: Dudden, you

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dudden, turn), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 True	punct
2	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 you	case
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 True	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Dudden	punct
6	Dudden	Dudden	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 True	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 let	cc
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 True	parataxis
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 thank	obj
13	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	11 thank	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 good	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 turn	det
16	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 good	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 good	cop
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 True	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ill	punct
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 ill	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ill	det
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 ill	aux
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 ill	cop
24	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 good	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 True	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		Dudden			tree rules
2	thank speech: thank in a quote	infinitive	Dudden not said here		you	kindly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	is in a quote	past	the turn			good property	tree rules
4	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	the turn not said here			ill property	tree rules

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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