More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 130

After that out came a fresh horse for the young prince, and the old man gave him a ball of yarn, and he flung it between the horse's two ears.

Who acts: that, old man, man · What happens: come, give, fling · To what, where: fresh horse, ball, Jack, horse, two ears

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, old man, man), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 came	nsubj
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 that	compound:prt
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 horse	det
6	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horse	amod
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 prince	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 prince	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 prince	amod
11	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 horse	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gave	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	nsubj
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	iobj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 ball	det
20	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 yarn	case
22	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ball	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 flung	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 flung	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 flung	nsubj
26	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 flung	obj
28	between	between	ADP	_	33 ears	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 horse	det
30	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ears	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 horse	case
32	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 ears	nummod
33	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 flung	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	that	a fresh horse			for the young prince	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme
2	give	past	the old man	a ball of yarn	Jack			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ball=Theme
3	fling	past	man	horse		the horse's two ears		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme between ear=Destination

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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