Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 51

The next day there wasn't a cow or a calf that belonged to Hudden or Dudden but her hide was going to the fair in Hudden's biggest cart drawn by Dudden's strongest pair of horses.

Who acts: cow, calf, hide · What happens: be, belong, go, draw · To what, where: Hudden, fair, biggest cart

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 (cow, calf, hide), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	obl:unmarked
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 cow	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cow	det
8	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 calf	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 calf	det
11	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cow	conj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 belonged	nsubj
13	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 calf	acl:relcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Hudden	case
15	Hudden	Hudden	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 belonged	obl
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 Dudden	cc
17	Dudden	Dudden	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Hudden	conj
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 going	cc
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hide	nmod:poss
20	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 going	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 going	aux
22	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 Hudden	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 fair	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fair	det
25	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 going	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	30 cart	case
27	Hudden	Hudden	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 cart	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 Hudden	case
29	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 cart	amod
30	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fair	nmod
31	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 cart	acl
32	by	by	ADP	_	36 pair	case
33	Dudden	Dudden	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 pair	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 Dudden	case
35	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 pair	amod
36	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 drawn	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 horses	case
38	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 pair	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a cow or a calf			there	day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	belong	past	a calf		Hudden or Dudden				vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	go	past · progressive	cow's hide			the fair in Hudden's biggest cart			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fair=Initial_Location
4	draw	participle		Hudden's biggest cart not said here				by Dudden's strongest pair of horses	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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