More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 143

He flung the ball, and off he goes as quick as lightning, and comes to the eldest brother's house.

Who acts: man · What happens: fling, go, come · To what, where: ball, house

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flung	nsubj
2	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ball	det
4	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flung	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 goes	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 goes	cc
7	off	off	ADP	_	9 goes	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 goes	nsubj
9	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 flung	conj
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 quick	advmod
11	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 goes	xcomp
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 lightning	case
13	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 quick	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 comes	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 comes	cc
16	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 goes	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	22 house	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 brother	det
19	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 brother	amod
20	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 house	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 brother	case
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 comes	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fling	past	man	the ball			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
2	go	present	man			quick property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	present	man not said here		the eldest brother's house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location

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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