Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 82

But the Brown Lake was far, the road was dusty, Hudden and Dudden were sore and weary, and parched with thirst.

Who acts: road, Brown Lake · What happens: be, parch

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 (road, Brown Lake), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 sore	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Lake	det
3	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Lake	compound
4	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 sore	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 far	cop
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 Lake	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dusty	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dusty	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dusty	cop
11	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Lake	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Hudden	punct
13	Hudden	Hudden	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Lake	flat
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Dudden	cc
15	Dudden	Dudden	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Lake	conj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sore	cop
17	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 weary	cc
19	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sore	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 parched	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 parched	cc
22	parched	parch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 sore	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 thirst	case
24	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 parched	obl:agent
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 sore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past		far property	tree rules
2	is	past	the road	dusty property	tree rules
3	is	past	the Brown Lake and Dudden	sore property	tree rules
4	be		the Brown Lake and Dudden not said here		tree rules
5	parch	participle	the Brown Lake and Dudden not said here		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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