The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 62

When they drew near, Tritill killed it, Litill took out its heart for the young man to cook, and both began quickly to turn the horns into drinking cups.

Who acts: oxen, Tritill, Litill, both · What happens: draw, kill, take out, cook, begin, turn · To what, where: heart, horns, drinking cups

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oxen, Tritill, Litill, both), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 drew	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 killed	advcl
4	near	near	ADV	_	3 drew	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct
6	Tritill	Tritill	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 killed	nsubj
7	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 killed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
10	Litill	Litill	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 killed	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 took	compound:prt
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 heart	nmod:poss
14	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 man	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 cook	mark
20	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 man	acl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
23	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	24 began	nsubj
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
25	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	24 began	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 turn	mark
27	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 horns	det
29	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 turn	obj
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 cups	case
31	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cups	compound
32	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 turn	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 killed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	oxen = ox			near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	kill	past	Tritill	heart			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	take out	past	Litill	heart's heart		for the young man	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme
4	cook	to-infinitive	Litill not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	begin	past	both			quickly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	turn	to-infinitive	both not said here	the horns	drinking cups		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent horn=Theme into cup=Trajectory

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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