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title: Worse than all evening was already drawing on, and the sun would soo… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Worse than all evening was already drawing on, and the sun would soon set. Who acts: sun. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 11

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Worse than all evening was already drawing on, and the sun would soon set.

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**Who acts:** sun · **What happens:** draw on, set

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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:pg3282:33:11
# text = Worse than all evening was already drawing on, and the sun would soon set.
1	Worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	already	already	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw on** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  | evening |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **set** | would | the sun |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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