--- title: It happened that in the long summer nights up in the mountain, where… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: It happened that in the long summer nights up in the mountain, where the sun never set, and it was very difficult to get to sleep, Andras had spent many hours in the study of magic, and this stood him in good stead now. Who acts: It, sun, Andras, this. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/36/93/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/36/) / 93 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 93 It happened that in the long summer nights up in the mountain, where the sun never set, and it was very difficult to get to sleep, Andras had spent many hours in the study of magic, and this stood him in good stead now. **Who acts:** It, sun, Andras, this · **What happens:** happen, not set, be, get, spend, stand · **To what, where:** study, Andras, good stead, magic This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, sun, Andras, this), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3027:36:93 # text = It happened that in the long summer nights up in the mountain, where the sun never set, and it was very difficult to get to sleep, Andras had spent many hours in the study of magic, and this stood him in good stead now. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 advcl _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 18 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 expl _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 very very ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 difficult difficult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 csubj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 Andras Andras PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 33 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 magic magic NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 43 nsubj _ _ 43 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 44 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 stead stead NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 48 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | It | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **set** | infinitive | the sun | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is** | past | | | | | | difficult *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | | | | | | to sleep *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to sleep=Result | | 5 | **spend** | past · perfect | Andras | | | the study of magic | hour | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **stand** | past | this | Andras | | good stead | now | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in stead=Destination | | 7 | **study** | | | magic | | | | | nom study «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/36/92/) - next →: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/36/94/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/36/)