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title: Hasn't it kept me and mine for years?" and with that Donald hit the… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Hasn't it kept me and mine for years?" and with that Donald hit the hide another whack and out jumped a second penny. Who acts: piece, Donald. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 24

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Hasn't it kept me and mine for years?" and with that Donald hit the hide another whack and out jumped a second penny.

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**Who acts:** piece, Donald · **What happens:** not keep, hit, jump · **To what, where:** me, hide, second penny

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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 (piece, Donald), 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:pg7885:10:24
# text = Hasn't it kept me and mine for years?" and with that Donald hit the hide another whack and out jumped a second penny.
1	Has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	Donald	Donald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	whack	whack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	out	out	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	amod	_	_
26	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **keep** | present | piece | me |  |  | year |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **hit** *in a quote* | past | Donald | the hide |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent hide=Patient whack=Result |
| 3 | **jump** *in a quote* | past | Donald *not said here* | a second penny |  |  |  | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme penny=Trajectory |

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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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