Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 25

Well, the long and the short of it was that Donald let the hide go, and, that very evening, who but he should walk up to Hudden's door?

Who acts: long · What happens: be, go, walk up

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 (long), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7885:495): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Well	well	INTJ	_	13 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 long	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 let	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 short	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 short	det
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 short	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 let	cop
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 let	mark
12	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 let	nsubj
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hide	det
15	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 let	obj
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 walk	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 walk	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 evening	punct
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 evening	det
21	very	very	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 evening	amod
22	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 walk	obl:unmarked
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 evening	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	28 walk	nsubj
25	but	but	ADP	_	26 he	case
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 who	nmod
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 walk	aux
28	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 walk	compound:prt
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 door	case
31	Hudden	Hudden	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 door	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 Hudden	case
33	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 walk	obl
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the long		let property	tree rules
2	go	infinitive	the long not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	walk up	should		evening	to Hudden's door result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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