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title: Well, the long and the short of it was that Donald let the hide go,… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, the long and the short of it was that Donald let the hide go, and, that very evening, who but he should walk up to Hudden's door? Who acts: long. 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 clau
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 25

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Well, the long and the short of it was that Donald let the hide go, and, that very evening, who but he should walk up to Hudden's door?

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**Who acts:** long · **What happens:** be, go, walk up

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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 (long), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7885:495`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:10:25
# text = Well, the long and the short of it was that Donald let the hide go, and, that very evening, who but he should walk up to Hudden's door?
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	Donald	Donald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	very	very	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	nsubj	_	_
25	but	but	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	Hudden	Hudden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the long |  |  |  |  | let *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | the long *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **walk up** | should |  |  |  |  | evening | to Hudden's door *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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