Argh! You're right; I got the words out of order. It should be: The girl the boy the dog bit hit cried. I tried parenthesising it; I tried Lisp syntax (yo

Argh! You're right; I got the words out of order. It should be: The girl the boy the dog bit hit cried. I tried parenthesising it; I tried Lisp syntax (you're right; it's the mix of direct and indirect objects that complicates things); nothing worked. It's a diabolical sentence. The best I could come up with was this: In step 1, the dog bit the boy. In step 2, the boy hit the girl. In step 3, the girl cried.