The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 92

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 · What happens: get, be · To what, where: shadow

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 getting	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 getting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 getting	aux
6	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	near	near	ADP	_	8 sunset	case
8	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 getting	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shadow	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 shadow	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 plain	det
12	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shadow	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 shadow	cop
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 shadow	case
15	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 getting	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bright	punct
17	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 bright	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tops	det
19	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bright	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 mountains	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mountains	det
22	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tops	nmod
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 bright	cop
24	still	still	ADV	_	26 bright	advmod
25	quite	quite	ADV	_	26 bright	advmod
26	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 getting	parataxis
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 getting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	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

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.

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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