The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 97

Hour after hour dragged heavily by in the forest hut, and at last the brother and sister felt quite sure that in some way or other all the rest of the family had perished.

Who acts: last · What happens: drag, feel, perish · To what, where: rest, way

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dragged	obl:unmarked
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 hour	case
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hour	nmod
4	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	4 dragged	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	10 hut	case
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 hut	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hut	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hut	compound
10	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dragged	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 felt	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 felt	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 felt	nsubj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 brother	det
16	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 last	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sister	cc
18	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brother	conj
19	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dragged	conj
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 sure	advmod
21	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 felt	xcomp
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 perished	mark
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 way	case
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 way	det
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 perished	obl
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 other	cc
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 way	conj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 rest	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 rest	det
30	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 perished	nsubj:pass
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 family	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 family	det
33	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rest	nmod
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 perished	aux
35	perished	perish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 sure	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dragged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	participle				hour	by the forest hut; heavily property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by hut=Location
2	feel	past	last				sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	perish	past · perfect · passive		all rest of the family	some way			tree rules

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.

Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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