The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 75

But when they caught sight of the carcasses of the oxen they began to fight for them till the blood flowed, and they entirely forgot Dapplegrim and the youth.

Who acts: beasts, blood · What happens: catch, begin, fight, flow, forget, sight · To what, where: sight, oxen, Dapplegrim, carcasses

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beasts, blood), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	26 forgot	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 caught	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	nsubj
4	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 forgot	advcl
5	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 carcasses	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 carcasses	det
8	carcasses	carcass	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sight	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 oxen	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 oxen	det
11	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 carcasses	nmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 oxen	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 fight	mark
15	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fight	obl
18	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 flowed	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 blood	det
20	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flowed	nsubj
21	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fight	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 forgot	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 forgot	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 forgot	nsubj
25	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	26 forgot	advmod
26	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 forgot	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 youth	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 youth	det
30	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Dapplegrim	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	catch	past	beasts = beast	sight of the carcasses of the oxen		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
2	begin	past	beasts = beast	the oxen not said here		tree rules
3	fight	to-infinitive	beasts = beast not said here		for beasts = beast	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	flow	past	the blood			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	forget	past	beasts = beast	Dapplegrim and the youth	entirely property	tree rules
6	sight			the carcasses of the oxen		nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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