The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 103

And when, on the morning of the fortieth day, the sultan went to the blue palace, and was received by the forty slaves, he nearly lost his wits from surprise.

Who acts: sultan, forty slaves · What happens: go, receive, lose · To what, where: blue palace, wits, surprise

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sultan, forty slaves), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	30 lost	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 went	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 morning	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 morning	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 morning	det
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl:unmarked
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 day	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 day	det
9	fortieth	fortieth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 day	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sultan	det
13	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 lost	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 palace	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 palace	det
17	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 palace	amod
18	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 received	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 received	cc
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 received	aux:pass
22	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 went	parataxis
23	by	by	ADP	_	26 slaves	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 slaves	det
25	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 slaves	nummod
26	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 received	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 lost	nsubj
29	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	30 lost	advmod
30	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 wits	nmod:poss
32	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 lost	obj
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 surprise	case
34	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lost	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the sultan		the blue palace	day; morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
2	receive	past · passive	the forty slaves					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	lose	past	sultan	sultan's wits	surprise		nearly property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent wit=Theme from surprise=Initial_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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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