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title: After being thus left alone, he went in and stretched himself on thr… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains, with its dependency
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 62

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg640:45:62
# text = 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.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	26	mark	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	obj	_	_
24	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	parataxis	_	_
27	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	xcomp	_	_
28	in	in	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
35	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	haired	haired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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 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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