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title: There was a meal-sack handy, and into it Hudden and Dudden popped Do… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a meal-sack handy, and into it Hudden and Dudden popped Donald O'Neary, tied him up tight, ran a pole through the knot, and off they started for the Brown Lake of the Bog, each with a pole-end on his shoulder, and Donald O'Neary between. Who acts: Hudden. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales»
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 81

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There was a meal-sack handy, and into it Hudden and Dudden popped Donald O'Neary, tied him up tight, ran a pole through the knot, and off they started for the Brown Lake of the Bog, each with a pole-end on his shoulder, and Donald O'Neary between.

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**Who acts:** Hudden · **What happens:** pop, be, run, start · **To what, where:** Donald, Hudden, pole, knot, each

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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), 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:pg7885:10:81
# text = There was a meal-sack handy, and into it Hudden and Dudden popped Donald O'Neary, tied him up tight, ran a pole through the knot, and off they started for the Brown Lake of the Bog, each with a pole-end on his shoulder, and Donald O'Neary between.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
7	handy	handy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	Hudden	Hudden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Dudden	Dudden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	popped	pop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	Donald	Donald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	O'Neary	O'Neary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
22	tight	tight	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	through	through	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	knot	knot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	off	off	ADP	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	Brown	Brown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	Bog	bog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	obl	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
46	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
49	on	on	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
54	Donald	Donald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
55	O'Neary	O'Neary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	flat	_	_
56	between	between	ADP	IN	_	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **pop** | past |  | Donald |  |  |  | into Hudden and Dudden *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent donald=Patient into hudden=Result |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | tie, tight *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** | past |  | a pole |  | the knot |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent pole=Theme through knot=Trajectory |
| 4 | **start** | past | Hudden | each |  |  |  | for the Brown Lake of the Bog | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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