The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 69

He was greatly pleased at this, and next morning, when the time was drawing near, went out into the garden; but the little fair-haired lad took a big pin out of his pocket, and stuck it into the back of the Irishman’s coat without his noticing it, whereupon he fell sound asleep.

Who acts: lad, little haired lad · What happens: be, draw, go out, take, stick, notice · To what, where: this, garden, big pin, pocket, pin, back

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 (lad, little haired lad), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pleased	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleased	cop
3	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	4 pleased	advmod
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 pleased	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 morning	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 morning	cc
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 morning	amod
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pleased	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drawing	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 drawing	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drawing	obl:unmarked
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 drawing	aux
16	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 pleased	parataxis
17	near	near	ADV	_	16 drawing	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 drawing	conj
20	out	out	ADV	_	19 went	advmod
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 garden	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 garden	det
23	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 took	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 took	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 lad	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lad	amod
28	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 haired	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 fair	punct
30	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lad	amod
31	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 took	nsubj
32	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleased	parataxis
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 pin	det
34	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 pin	amod
35	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 took	obj
36	out	out	ADP	_	39 pocket	case
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 pocket	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 pocket	nmod:poss
39	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 took	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 stuck	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 stuck	cc
42	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 took	conj
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 stuck	obj
44	into	into	ADP	_	46 back	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 back	det
46	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 stuck	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	51 coat	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Irishman	det
49	Irishman	Irishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 coat	nmod:poss
50	’s	's	PART	_	49 Irishman	case
51	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 back	nmod
52	without	without	SCONJ	_	54 noticing	mark
53	his	his	PRON	Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 noticing	nsubj
54	noticing	notice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 stuck	advcl
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 noticing	obj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 fell	punct
57	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	59 fell	advmod
58	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 fell	nsubj
59	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 took	conj
60	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 fell	xcomp
61	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 sound	xcomp
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	lad		this		greatly, pleased property	tree rules
2	draw	past · progressive				time	near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go out	past			the garden		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	take	past	the little haired lad	a big pin	lad's pocket			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent pin=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location
5	stick	past	the little haired lad not said here	pin	the back of the Irishman's coat			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into back=Destination
6	notice	gerund	lad	pin				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
7	fall	past	lad				whereupon property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	sound	infinitive	lad not said here				asleep property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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