The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 84

Filled with despair, he cursed the moment when he had entered the service of the cruel witch, and already he saw his head sticking up on the sharp spike beside the others.

Who acts: Iwanich, head · What happens: fill, curse, enter, see, stick up, service · To what, where: service, head, sharp spike, cruel witch

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 (Iwanich, head), 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	Filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cursed	advcl
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 despair	case
3	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Filled	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Filled	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cursed	nsubj
6	cursed	curse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 moment	det
8	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cursed	obj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 entered	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 entered	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 entered	aux
12	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 cursed	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 service	det
14	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 entered	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 witch	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 witch	det
17	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 witch	amod
18	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 service	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 saw	cc
21	already	already	ADV	_	23 saw	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cursed	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saw	obj
26	sticking	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 saw	xcomp
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 sticking	compound:prt
28	on	on	ADP	_	31 spike	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 spike	det
30	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 spike	amod
31	spike	spike	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sticking	obl
32	beside	beside	ADP	_	34 others	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 others	det
34	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sticking	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cursed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	participle	Iwanich not said here				with despair	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with despair=Instrument
2	curse	past	Iwanich			moment		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	enter	past · perfect	Iwanich	the service of the cruel witch				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination
4	see	past	Iwanich	Iwanich's head				tree rules
5	stick up	gerund	Iwanich's head not said here		the sharp spike		beside the others	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on spike=Destination
6	service			the cruel witch				nom service «act transitive»: of=patient

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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