The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 55

It was night when he entered the gates, and the fifteen days allotted were not up till the next day.

Who acts: city, deal, fifteen days · What happens: be, enter, allot, not be · To what, where: night, gates, fifteen days

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, deal, fifteen days), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 night	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 night	cop
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 entered	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 entered	nsubj
6	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 night	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gates	det
8	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 entered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 up	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 up	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 days	det
12	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 days	nummod
13	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 up	nsubj
14	allotted	allot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 days	acl
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 up	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 up	advmod
17	up	up	ADV	_	3 night	advmod
18	till	till	ADP	_	21 day	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 day	det
20	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 day	amod
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 up	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	city	night			tree rules
2	enter	past	deal	the gates			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Destination
3	allot	participle		the fifteen days not said here			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	not is	past	the fifteen days		day	up property	tree rules

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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