The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 8

Mixing in the crowd, he noticed a stag-hound which the butchers had caught and tied to a post, and which was being flogged in a merciless manner.

Who acts: Martin · What happens: mix, notice, catch, tie, flog · To what, where: crowd, stag hound, merciless manner

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 (Martin), 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	Mixing	mix	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 noticed	advcl
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 crowd	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crowd	det
4	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mixing	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mixing	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 noticed	nsubj
7	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hound	det
9	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hound	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 stag	punct
11	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 noticed	obj
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 caught	nsubj:pass
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 butchers	det
14	butchers	butcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 caught	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 caught	aux
16	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 hound	acl:relcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tied	cc
18	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 caught	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 post	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 post	det
21	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tied	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 flogged	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 flogged	cc
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 flogged	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 flogged	aux:pass
26	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 flogged	aux:pass
27	flogged	flog	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 noticed	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 manner	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 manner	det
30	merciless	merciless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 manner	amod
31	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flogged	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mix	gerund	Martin not said here		the crowd		vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	notice	past	Martin	a stag hound			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hound=Stimulus
3	catch	past · perfect · passive		a stag hound			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	tie	participle				to a post	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to post=Co-Patient
5	flog	past · passive			a merciless manner		vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in manner=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: «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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