More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 18

So he mounts his Arab steed, and off he goes like a shot out of a gun.

Who acts: boy · What happens: mount, go · To what, where: Arab steed, gun

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 mounts	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 mounts	nsubj
3	mounts	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 steed	nmod:poss
5	Arab	Arab	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 steed	amod
6	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mounts	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 goes	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 goes	cc
9	off	off	ADP	_	11 goes	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 goes	nsubj
11	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mounts	conj
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 shot	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 shot	det
14	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 goes	obl
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 gun	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 gun	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 gun	det
18	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 goes	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mounts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mount	present	boy	boy's Arab steed					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient
2	go	present	boy			a gun		like a shot	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out gun=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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