Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 31

If Hudden had stared before, he stared ten times more now, and no sooner was Donald's back turned, than he was of as hard as he could pelt to Dudden's.

Who acts: Donald, back · What happens: stare, be, turn, pelt · To what, where: Hudden, more, back, Dudden

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 (Donald, back), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 stared	mark
2	Hudden	Hudden	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stared	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stared	aux
4	stared	stare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 stared	advcl
5	before	before	ADV	_	4 stared	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stared	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stared	nsubj
8	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 times	nummod
10	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 more	obl:unmarked
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 stared	obj
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 stared	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 turned	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 turned	cc
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 back	det
16	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 no	advmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 back	cop
18	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 back	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 Donald	case
20	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turned	nsubj
21	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stared	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hard	punct
23	than	than	SCONJ	_	28 hard	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hard	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 hard	cop
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 hard	case
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 hard	advmod
28	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 turned	conj
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 pelt	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 pelt	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 pelt	aux
32	pelt	pelt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 hard	csubj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 Dudden	case
34	Dudden	Dudden	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 pelt	obj
35	's	's	PART	_	34 Dudden	case
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	stare a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		Hudden			before property	tree rules
2	stare	past	Donald	more		now		tree rules
3	is a	past		Donald's back				tree rules
4	turn	past	Donald's back					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	Donald				hard property	tree rules
6	pelt	could	Donald		Dudden			vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dudden=Destination

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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