The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 10

‘Friends, why are you beating the poor dog so cruelly?’

Who acts: you · What happens: beat · To what, where: poor dog

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Friends	punct
2	Friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 beating	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 beating	advmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 beating	aux
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 beating	nsubj
7	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Friends	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dog	det
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dog	amod
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beating	obj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 cruelly	advmod
12	cruelly	cruelly	ADV	_	7 beating	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Friends	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Friends	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present · progressive	you	the poor dog				cruelly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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