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title: He was greatly pleased at this, and next morning, when the time was… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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, littl
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 69

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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.

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**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

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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 (lad, little haired lad), 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:pg640:45:69
# text = 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.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
17	near	near	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	out	out	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
28	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	haired	haired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	into	into	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	Irishman	Irishman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	’s	's	PART	POS	_	49	case	_	_
51	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
52	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
53	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	noticing	notice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	advcl	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
57	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	59	advmod	_	_
58	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
60	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	xcomp	_	_
61	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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