The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 33
After some hours’ hard labour came the time for rest, and they all flung their hammers to the ground and trooped out of the cave.
Who acts: hours, hard labour, amid · What happens: ', come, fling, troop · To what, where: hammers, ground, cave
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hours, hard labour, amid), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 hours | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 hours | det |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ’ | nsubj |
| 4 | ’ | ' | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 labour | amod |
| 6 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ’ | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 rest | case |
| 11 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 time | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flung | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flung | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 flung | nsubj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 flung | advmod |
| 16 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | parataxis |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hammers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hammers | hammer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 flung | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 ground | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ground | det |
| 21 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flung | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 trooped | cc |
| 23 | trooped | troop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 flung | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 cave | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 cave | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 cave | det |
| 27 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 trooped | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ’ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ' | present | some hours | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | past | hard labour | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fling | past | amid | amid's hammers | the ground | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme to ground=Destination | |||
| 4 | troop | past | amid not said here | the cave | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out cave=Trajectory |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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