The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 51

The other spikes, as you see, are already adorned, and the skulls are all those of different servants I have had who have failed to do what I demanded.’

Who acts: you, I, different servants · What happens: see, adorn, have, fail, not do, demand · To what, where: other spikes, different servants

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (you, I, different servants), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spikes	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spikes	amod
3	spikes	spike	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 adorned	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 see	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
7	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 spikes	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 adorned	aux:pass
10	already	already	ADV	_	11 adorned	advmod
11	adorned	adorn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 those	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 those	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 skulls	det
15	skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 those	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 those	cop
17	all	all	ADV	_	18 those	advmod
18	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 adorned	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 servants	case
20	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 servants	amod
21	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 those	nmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 had	aux
24	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 servants	acl:relcl
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 failed	nsubj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 failed	aux
27	failed	fail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 servants	acl:relcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 do	mark
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 failed	xcomp
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 demanded	obj
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 demanded	nsubj
32	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 do	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 adorned	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 adorned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see	present	you	the other spikes not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spike=Stimulus
2	adorn	present · passive		the other spikes	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
3	have	present · perfect	I	different servants not said here	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient
4	fail	present · perfect	different servants		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	not do	to-infinitive	different servants not said here		tree rules
6	demand speech: request	past	I		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Precondition

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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