More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 141

After a good breakfast out comes a fresh horse, and a ball of yarn to throw between his ears.

What happens: come, throw · To what, where: fresh horse, 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: 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	_	4 breakfast	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 breakfast	det
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 breakfast	amod
4	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	obl
5	out	out	ADV	_	6 comes	advmod
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 horse	det
8	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 horse	amod
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ball	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ball	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ball	det
13	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 yarn	case
15	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ball	nmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 throw	mark
17	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ball	acl
18	between	between	ADP	_	20 ears	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 ears	nmod:poss
20	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 throw	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present		a fresh horse			after a good breakfast	a ball of yarn obl; out property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme
2	throw	to-infinitive				man's ears			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent 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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