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title: One day Hudden met Dudden, and they were soon grumbling as usual, an… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One day Hudden met Dudden, and they were soon grumbling as usual, and all to the tune of "If only we could get that vagabond Donald O'Neary out of the country." Who acts: Hudden, we. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, with its dependency tree a
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 8

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One day Hudden met Dudden, and they were soon grumbling as usual, and all to the tune of "If only we could get that vagabond Donald O'Neary out of the country."

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**Who acts:** Hudden, we · **What happens:** meet, grumble, get · **To what, where:** Dudden, vagabond, country · **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 (Hudden, we), 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:pg7885:10:8
# text = One day Hudden met Dudden, and they were soon grumbling as usual, and all to the tune of "If only we could get that vagabond Donald O'Neary out of the country."
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Hudden	Hudden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Dudden	Dudden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	grumbling	grumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	csubj	_	_
27	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	vagabond	vagabond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	Donald	Donald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
30	O'Neary	O'Neary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | Hudden | Dudden |  |  | day | to all tune | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dudden=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **grumble** *speech: other* | past · progressive | Hudden |  |  |  |  | as usual; soon *property* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | could | we | that vagabond |  | the country |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vagabond=Stimulus |

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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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