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title: It was more kicks than halfpence that Hudden and Dudden got before t… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was more kicks than halfpence that Hudden and Dudden got before they were well on their way home again, and they didn't run the slower because all the dogs of the town were at their heels. Who acts: matter, Hudden, dogs. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and D
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 71

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It was more kicks than halfpence that Hudden and Dudden got before they were well on their way home again, and they didn't run the slower because all the dogs of the town were at their heels.

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**Who acts:** matter, Hudden, dogs · **What happens:** be, get, not run · **To what, where:** more kicks, way, heels

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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 (matter, Hudden, dogs), 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:pg7885:10:71
# text = It was more kicks than halfpence that Hudden and Dudden got before they were well on their way home again, and they didn't run the slower because all the dogs of the town were at their heels.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	kicks	kick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	halfpence	halfpence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	Hudden	Hudden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Dudden	Dudden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	home	home	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	slower	slow	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	xcomp	_	_
29	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | matter | more kicks |  |  |  | than halfpence | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | past | Hudden and Dudden | more kicks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kick=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | Hudden |  |  | Hudden's way | again | home, well *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **run** | past · do-support | Hudden |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | all dogs of the town |  |  | dogs's heels |  |  | tree rules |

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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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