The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 79
When it was getting near nine o’clock he went out to the garden to wait till she came, and the fair-haired lad along with him; but as soon as the lad got the chance he stuck the pin into his master’s coat again and he fell asleep as before.
Who acts: order, lad, sleep · What happens: get, go out, wait, come, stick, fall · To what, where: nine o’clock, haired lad, chance, pin, coat
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 (order, lad, sleep), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 getting | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 getting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 getting | aux |
| 4 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 went | advcl |
| 5 | near | near | ADV | _ | 6 nine | advmod |
| 6 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 o’clock | nummod |
| 7 | o’clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 getting | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 garden | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 garden | det |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 wait | mark |
| 15 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | advcl |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wait | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lad | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lad | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lad | det |
| 22 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 haired | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 fair | punct |
| 24 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lad | amod |
| 25 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 26 | along | along | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 lad | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 stuck | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 stuck | cc |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | _ | 32 soon | advmod |
| 32 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 stuck | advmod |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 got | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 lad | det |
| 35 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 got | nsubj |
| 36 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 stuck | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 chance | det |
| 38 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 got | obj |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 stuck | nsubj |
| 40 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | parataxis |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 pin | det |
| 42 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 stuck | obj |
| 43 | into | into | ADP | _ | 47 coat | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 master | nmod:poss |
| 45 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 coat | nmod:poss |
| 46 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 45 master | case |
| 47 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 stuck | obl |
| 48 | again | again | ADV | _ | 40 stuck | advmod |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 fell | cc |
| 50 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 fell | nsubj |
| 51 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 stuck | conj |
| 52 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 fell | xcomp |
| 53 | as | as | ADP | _ | 54 before | case |
| 54 | before | before | ADV | _ | 51 fell | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · progressive | order | nine o’clock | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer o'clock=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go out | past | lad | the haired lad along Irishman | to the garden; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | wait | to-infinitive | lad not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | past | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | get | past | the lad | the chance | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | stick | past | lad | the pin | lad's master's coat | again | soon property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pin=Theme into coat=Destination | |
| 7 | fall | past | lad | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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