Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 71

It was more kicks than halfpence that Hudden and Dudden got before they were well on their way home again, and they didn't run the slower because all the dogs of the town were at their heels.

Who acts: matter, Hudden, dogs · What happens: be, get, not run · To what, where: more kicks, way, heels

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 (matter, Hudden, dogs), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kicks	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kicks	cop
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 kicks	amod
4	kicks	kick	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 halfpence	case
6	halfpence	halfpence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kicks	nmod
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 got	mark
8	Hudden	Hudden	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 got	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Dudden	cc
10	Dudden	Dudden	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Hudden	conj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kicks	acl
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 way	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 way	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 way	cop
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 way	advmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 way	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 way	nmod:poss
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obl
19	home	home	ADV	_	18 way	advmod
20	again	again	ADV	_	18 way	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 run	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 run	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 run	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 run	aux
25	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 run	advmod
26	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 got	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 slower	det
28	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 run	xcomp
29	because	because	SCONJ	_	39 heels	mark
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 dogs	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dogs	det
32	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 heels	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 town	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 town	det
35	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dogs	nmod
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 heels	cop
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 heels	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 heels	nmod:poss
39	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 slower	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kicks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	matter	more kicks			than halfpence	tree rules
2	get	past	Hudden and Dudden	more kicks not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kick=Stimulus
3	is	past	Hudden		Hudden's way	again	home, well property	tree rules
4	not run	past · do-support	Hudden				slow property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	all dogs of the town		dogs's heels			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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