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title: And there was time enough for that, for days and nights went by, and… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And there was time enough for that, for days and nights went by, and no one came; at last when some one did come, it was only to put some great boxes into the corner. Who acts: days, one, ray. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 111

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And there was time enough for that, for days and nights went by, and no one came; at last when some one did come, it was only to put some great boxes into the corner.

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**Who acts:** days, one, ray · **What happens:** be, go by, come · **To what, where:** last, corner

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days, one, ray), 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:pg5615:11:111
# text = And there was time enough for that, for days and nights went by, and no one came; at last when some one did come, it was only to put some great boxes into the corner.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obl	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nsubj	_	_
26	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
34	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
35	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | time | for that; enough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go by** | past | days and nights |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past · do-support | some one |  |  | last |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 5 | **is** | past | ray |  |  | the corner |  | put *property* | tree rules |

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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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