The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 63

Meanwhile the sultan was in his palace waiting till the fortieth day should dawn, and wondering that not one spadeful of earth should have been dug out of the hill.

Who acts: sultan, palace · What happens: be, wait, wonder, dig out · To what, where: palace, one spadeful, hill

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, palace), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	7 palace	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sultan	det
3	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 palace	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 palace	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 palace	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 palace	nmod:poss
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 palace	acl
9	till	till	ADP	_	14 dawn	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
11	fortieth	fortieth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dawn	compound
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 dawn	aux
14	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waiting	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wondering	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wondering	cc
17	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 waiting	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 dug	mark
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 one	advmod
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 spadeful	nummod
21	spadeful	spadeful	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dug	nsubj:pass
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 earth	case
23	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spadeful	nmod
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 dug	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 dug	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 dug	aux:pass
27	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 wondering	advcl
28	out	out	ADP	_	31 hill	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 hill	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hill	det
31	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dug	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 palace	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sultan		sultan's palace		meanwhile property	tree rules
2	wait	gerund	sultan's palace not said here			dawn		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wonder speech: ask	gerund	sultan's palace not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	dig out	should · perfect · passive		one spadeful of earth	the hill			vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary hill=Result

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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