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title: The sun was almost setting by the time they reached their journey's… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The sun was almost setting by the time they reached their journey's end and being very tired they gladly sat down by a well. Who acts: sun, leaves. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 104

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The sun was almost setting by the time they reached their journey's end and being very tired they gladly sat down by a well.

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**Who acts:** sun, leaves · **What happens:** set, reach, be, sit down, journey · **To what, where:** end

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, leaves), 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:pg3027:3:104
# text = The sun was almost setting by the time they reached their journey's end and being very tired they gladly sat down by a well.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past · progressive | the sun |  |  |  | time | almost *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **reach** | past | leaves *= leaf* | leaves's journey's end |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent end=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | the sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sit down** | past | leaves *= leaf* |  |  |  |  | by a well; gladly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by well=Location |
| 5 | **journey** |  | leaves *= leaf* |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 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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