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title: And when Donald came to see if Daisy was all snug for the night, the… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when Donald came to see if Daisy was all snug for the night, the poor beast had only time to lick his hand once before she died. Who acts: Donald, Daisy, poor beast. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 11

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And when Donald came to see if Daisy was all snug for the night, the poor beast had only time to lick his hand once before she died.

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**Who acts:** Donald, Daisy, poor beast · **What happens:** come, see, be, have, lick, die · **To what, where:** hand

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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, Daisy, poor beast), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:10:11
# text = And when Donald came to see if Daisy was all snug for the night, the poor beast had only time to lick his hand once before she died.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	Donald	Donald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	Daisy	Daisy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	snug	snug	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	lick	lick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	23	advmod	_	_
27	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Donald |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Donald *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Daisy |  |  |  | night | snug *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | the poor beast |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lick** | to-infinitive | the poor beast *not said here* | Donald's hand |  |  |  | once *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hand=Source |
| 6 | **die** | past | Daisy |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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.

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**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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