Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 8

One day Hudden met Dudden, and they were soon grumbling as usual, and all to the tune of "If only we could get that vagabond Donald O'Neary out of the country."

Who acts: Hudden, we · What happens: meet, grumble, get · To what, where: Dudden, vagabond, country · Speech: someone speaks here

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, we), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	obl:unmarked
3	Hudden	Hudden	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 met	nsubj
4	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Dudden	Dudden	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 met	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grumbling	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 grumbling	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 grumbling	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 grumbling	aux
10	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 grumbling	advmod
11	grumbling	grumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 met	advcl
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 usual	case
13	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grumbling	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tune	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tune	cc
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 tune	det
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 tune	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tune	det
19	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	obl
20	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 get	mark
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 get	punct
22	If	if	SCONJ	_	26 get	mark
23	only	only	ADV	_	26 get	advmod
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 get	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 get	aux
26	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 tune	csubj
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 vagabond	det
28	vagabond	vagabond	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 get	obj
29	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 vagabond	appos
30	O'Neary	O'Neary	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Donald	flat
31	out	out	ADP	_	34 country	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 country	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 country	det
34	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 vagabond	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 tune	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 tune	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	Hudden	Dudden		day	to all tune	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dudden=Co-Agent
2	grumble speech: other	past · progressive	Hudden				as usual; soon property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	could	we	that vagabond	the country			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vagabond=Stimulus

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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