The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 65

At length, however, at their mother's entreaty, he was told that he might pass the night in the stable.

Who acts: man · What happens: tell, pass · To what, where: man, length, stable · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	2 length	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 entreaty	punct
6	at	at	ADP	_	10 entreaty	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 entreaty	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 mother	case
10	entreaty	entreaty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 length	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 told	aux:pass
14	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 pass	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pass	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 pass	aux
18	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 told	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 night	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pass	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 stable	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stable	det
23	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pass	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		man		length and brothers's mother's entreaty			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	pass not said to happen	might	man			the stable	night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in stable=Location

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 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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