The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 77

Each of them then began to flay their own ox, but Ring was only half through by the time Snati had finished his.

Who acts: Each, Ring · What happens: begin, flay, be, finish · To what, where: own ox, Snati

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Each, Ring), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 began	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Each	nmod
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 began	advmod
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 flay	mark
7	flay	flay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ox	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ox	amod
10	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flay	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 finished	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 finished	cc
13	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 through	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 through	cop
15	only	only	ADV	_	17 through	advmod
16	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	17 through	advmod
17	through	through	ADV	_	23 finished	advmod
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 time	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 time	det
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 finished	obl
21	Snati	Snati	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 finished	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 finished	aux
23	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 began	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 finished	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Each		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	flay	to-infinitive	Each not said here	oxen's own ox			tree rules
3	is	past	Ring			half, through property	tree rules
4	finish	past · perfect · passive		Snati	time		tree rules

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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