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title: By this time it was getting near sunset, and the plain was in shadow… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By this time it was getting near sunset, and the plain was in shadow, though the tops of the mountains were still quite bright. Who acts: Bunyip, plain, tops. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 92

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By this time it was getting near sunset, and the plain was in shadow, though the tops of the mountains were still quite bright.

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**Who acts:** Bunyip, plain, tops · **What happens:** get, be · **To what, where:** shadow

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bunyip, plain, tops), 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:pg3282:8:92
# text = By this time it was getting near sunset, and the plain was in shadow, though the tops of the mountains were still quite bright.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	near	near	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	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	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
17	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · progressive | Bunyip |  |  |  | sunset; time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | the plain |  |  | shadow |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the tops of the mountains |  |  |  | still | bright *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 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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