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title: "Let's kill Daisy," said Hudden at last; "if that doesn't make him c… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Let's kill Daisy," said Hudden at last; "if that doesn't make him clear out, nothing will." Who acts: you, 's, Hudden, that. 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 9

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"Let's kill Daisy," said Hudden at last; "if that doesn't make him clear out, nothing will."

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**Who acts:** you, 's, Hudden, that, Dudden · **What happens:** let, kill, say, not make, not clear out · **To what, where:** 's, Daisy, last, Dudden · **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, 's, Hudden, that), 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:pg7885:10:9
# text = "Let's kill Daisy," said Hudden at last; "if that doesn't make him clear out, nothing will."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	Daisy	Daisy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl	_	_
9	Hudden	Hudden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
16	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	clear	clear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	24	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | 's |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* | Daisy |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daisy=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Hudden |  |  | last |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **make** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | that | Dudden |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **clear out** *in a quote* | infinitive | Dudden *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |

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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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