--- title: When it was getting near nine o’clock he went out to the garden to w… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «The Yellow Fair --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/45/79/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Blue Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/45/) / 79 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:45:79 # text = 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. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 5 near near ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 o’clock o'clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 out out ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 16 till till SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 22 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 haired haired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 26 along along ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 31 as as ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 40 advmod _ _ 33 as as SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 stuck stick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 pin pin NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 into into ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ’s 's PART POS _ 45 case _ _ 47 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 48 again again ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 50 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 51 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ _ 52 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 xcomp _ _ 53 as as ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 before before ADV RB _ 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/45/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/45/80/) - ↑ back to [The Blue Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/45/)