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title: One very hot evening, after they had been working hard all day, they… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One very hot evening, after they had been working hard all day, they fell asleep under a tree in front of the hut. Who acts: brothers. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 31

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One very hot evening, after they had been working hard all day, they fell asleep under a tree in front of the hut.

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**Who acts:** brothers · **What happens:** work, fall · **To what, where:** One hot evening, tree

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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:pg5615:37:31
# text = One very hot evening, after they had been working hard all day, they fell asleep under a tree in front of the hut.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux	_	_
10	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past · perfect · progressive | brothers *= brother* | One hot evening *not said here* |  |  | day | hard *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent evening=Material |
| 2 | **fall** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  | a tree in front of the hut | evening | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under tree=Location |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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