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title: But the Brown Lake was far, the road was dusty, Hudden and Dudden we… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Brown Lake was far, the road was dusty, Hudden and Dudden were sore and weary, and parched with thirst. Who acts: road, Brown Lake. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 82

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But the Brown Lake was far, the road was dusty, Hudden and Dudden were sore and weary, and parched with thirst.

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**Who acts:** road, Brown Lake · **What happens:** be, parch

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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 (road, Brown Lake), 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:pg7885:10:82
# text = But the Brown Lake was far, the road was dusty, Hudden and Dudden were sore and weary, and parched with thirst.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Brown	Brown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	dusty	dusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Hudden	Hudden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Dudden	Dudden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	parched	parch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the road |  |  |  |  | dusty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the Brown Lake and Dudden |  |  |  |  | sore *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the Brown Lake and Dudden *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **parch** | participle | the Brown Lake and Dudden *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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