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title: After some hours’ hard labour came the time for rest, and they all f… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 33

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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.

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**Who acts:** hours, hard labour, amid · **What happens:** ', come, fling, troop · **To what, where:** hammers, ground, cave

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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.

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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:pg641:25:33
# text = 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.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
16	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	hammers	hammer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	trooped	troop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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 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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