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title: Hour after hour dragged heavily by in the forest hut, and at last th… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 97

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg3282:14:97
# text = 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.
1	Hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	dragged	drag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	perished	perish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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 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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