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title: You would think there was little here to make Hudden and Dudden jeal… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: You would think there was little here to make Hudden and Dudden jealous, but so it is, the more one has the more one wants, and Donald's neighbours lay awake of nights scheming how they might get hold of his little strip of grass-land. Who acts: You, hovel, more one, neighbours. A sentence of «Celti
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 6

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You would think there was little here to make Hudden and Dudden jealous, but so it is, the more one has the more one wants, and Donald's neighbours lay awake of nights scheming how they might get hold of his little strip of grass-land.

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**Who acts:** You, hovel, more one, neighbours · **What happens:** think, be, make, have, want, lie · **To what, where:** Hudden, hold, little strip · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (You, hovel, more one, neighbours), 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:pg7885:10:6
# text = You would think there was little here to make Hudden and Dudden jealous, but so it is, the more one has the more one wants, and Donald's neighbours lay awake of nights scheming how they might get hold of his little strip of grass-land.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	Hudden	Hudden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Dudden	Dudden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	Donald	Donald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
34	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
37	scheming	scheme	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
38	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	41	advmod	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
42	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
45	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	strip	strip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | would | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past |  |  |  | here; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | Hudden and Dudden |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hudden=Product |
| 4 | **be** | present | hovel |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | present | the more one |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **want** | present | the more one |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 7 | **lie** | past | Donald's neighbours |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **scheme** | gerund | Donald's neighbours *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conspire-71 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **get** | might | neighbours *= neighbour* | hold of Donald's little strip of grass land |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus |
| 10 | **hold** |  |  | Donald's little strip of grass land |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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