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title: If Hudden had stared before, he stared ten times more now, and no so… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If Hudden had stared before, he stared ten times more now, and no sooner was Donald's back turned, than he was of as hard as he could pelt to Dudden's. Who acts: Donald, back. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 31

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If Hudden had stared before, he stared ten times more now, and no sooner was Donald's back turned, than he was of as hard as he could pelt to Dudden's.

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**Who acts:** Donald, back · **What happens:** stare, be, turn, pelt · **To what, where:** Hudden, more, back, Dudden

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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, back), 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:pg7885:10:31
# text = If Hudden had stared before, he stared ten times more now, and no sooner was Donald's back turned, than he was of as hard as he could pelt to Dudden's.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Hudden	Hudden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stared	stare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
5	before	before	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stared	stare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	obj	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
16	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	Donald	Donald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	pelt	pelt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	csubj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Dudden	Dudden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stare** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | Hudden |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stare** | past | Donald | more |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | Donald's back |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **turn** | past | Donald's back |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | Donald |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **pelt** | could | Donald |  | Dudden |  |  |  | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dudden=Destination |

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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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