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title: Every shot fell short, or went wide of the mark; and at last, just a… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Every shot fell short, or went wide of the mark; and at last, just as darkness was setting in, he lost sight altogether of the beast. Who acts: shot, darkness. 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 pra
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 13

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Every shot fell short, or went wide of the mark; and at last, just as darkness was setting in, he lost sight altogether of the beast.

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**Who acts:** shot, darkness · **What happens:** fall, go, set in, lose · **To what, where:** sight

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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 (shot, darkness), 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:pg3282:33:13
# text = Every shot fell short, or went wide of the mark; and at last, just as darkness was setting in, he lost sight altogether of the beast.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	shot	shot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | every shot |  |  |  |  | short *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | every shot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the mark; wide *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of mark=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **set in** | past · progressive | darkness |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **lose** | past | darkness | sight |  |  |  | of the beast | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme of beast=Initial\_Location |

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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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