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title: Hour by hour they fought, and mountains rolled beneath their feet li… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Hour by hour they fought, and mountains rolled beneath their feet like pebbles in a flood; now Makoma would break away, and summoning up his strength, strike the giant with Nu-endo his iron hammer, and Sakatirina would pluck up the mountains and hurl them upon the hero, but neither one could slay th
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 34

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Hour by hour they fought, and mountains rolled beneath their feet like pebbles in a flood; now Makoma would break away, and summoning up his strength, strike the giant with Nu-endo his iron hammer, and Sakatirina would pluck up the mountains and hurl them upon the hero, but neither one could slay the other.

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**Who acts:** Hour, mountains, Makoma, Sakatirina, one · **What happens:** fight, roll, break away, summon up, strike, pluck up · **To what, where:** flood, strength, giant, mountains, hero, other

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hour, mountains, Makoma, Sakatirina), 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:pg3027:2:34
# text = Hour by hour they fought, and mountains rolled beneath their feet like pebbles in a flood; now Makoma would break away, and summoning up his strength, strike the giant with Nu-endo his iron hammer, and Sakatirina would pluck up the mountains and hurl them upon the hero, but neither one could slay the other.
1	Hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
20	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	summoning	summon	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	Nu	Nu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	endo	endo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	Sakatirina	Sakatirina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
44	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
46	up	up	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	hurl	hurl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	conj	_	_
51	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
56	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
57	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	58	det	_	_
58	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	_
59	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
60	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	conj	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past | Hour by hour |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **roll** | past | mountains |  |  | a flood |  | beneath strength's feet like pebbles | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme beneath foot=Source in flood=Trajectory |
| 3 | **break away** | would | Makoma |  |  |  | now | away *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **summon up** | gerund | Hour by hour *not said here* | Makoma's strength |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Recipient |
| 5 | **strike** | infinitive | Hour by hour *not said here* | the giant |  |  |  | with Nu endo | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent giant=Patient hammer=Result with endo=Instrument |
| 6 | **pluck up** | would | Sakatirina | the mountains |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient |
| 7 | **hurl** | infinitive | Sakatirina *not said here* | strength |  | the hero |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme upon hero=Destination |
| 8 | **slay** | could | neither one | the other |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=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:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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