Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 129

Hudden stared, and Dudden gaped; but they couldn't get over the cattle; fine fat cattle they were too.

Who acts: Hudden, Dudden · What happens: stare, gape, not get, be · To what, where: fine fat cattle

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 (Hudden, Dudden), 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	Hudden	Hudden	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stared	nsubj
2	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gaped	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gaped	cc
5	Dudden	Dudden	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gaped	nsubj
6	gaped	gape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stared	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 get	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 get	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 get	advmod
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stared	conj
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 cattle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cattle	det
15	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 cattle	punct
17	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cattle	amod
18	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cattle	compound
19	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stared	obl
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 too	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 too	cop
22	too	too	ADV	_	19 cattle	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stare	past	Hudden	fine fat cattle		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	gape	past	Dudden			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not get	could	Hudden		over the cattle	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over cattle=Destination
4	is	past	Hudden	fine fat cattle not said here	too 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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