The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 62

After being thus left alone, he went in and stretched himself on three chairs that were in the room, when what does he see coming in at the door but a little fair-haired lad.

Who acts: Irishman, that, room · What happens: leave, go in, stretch, be, see, come in · To what, where: Irishman, room, door

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Irishman, that, room), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 left	mark
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 left	aux:pass
3	thus	thus	ADV	_	4 left	advmod
4	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 went	advcl
5	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 left	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stretched	cc
11	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 stretched	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 chairs	case
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 chairs	nummod
15	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 room	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 room	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 room	cop
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 room	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 room	det
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stretched	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 see	punct
22	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 see	mark
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 see	obj
24	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 see	aux
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 see	nsubj
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 room	parataxis
27	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 see	xcomp
28	in	in	ADV	_	27 coming	advmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 door	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 door	det
31	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 coming	obl
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 lad	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 lad	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 lad	amod
35	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 haired	amod
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 fair	punct
37	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 lad	amod
38	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 room	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund · passive	Irishman not said here			alone, thus property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»
2	go in	past	Irishman				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stretch	past	Irishman not said here	Irishman			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
4	is	past	that		the room but a little haired lad	on three chairs	tree rules
5	see	present · do-support	Irishman	the room but a little haired lad			tree rules
6	come in	gerund	the room but a little haired lad not said here		the door		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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