The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 76

He soon grew to love me, and for thirty-nine days we spent as pleasant an existence as could be expected underground.

Who acts: Agib, we · What happens: grow, love, spend, expect · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Agib, we), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grew	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 grew	advmod
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 love	mark
5	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grew	xcomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 love	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 spent	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 spent	cc
9	for	for	ADP	_	13 days	case
10	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 nine	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 thirty	punct
12	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 days	nummod
13	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 spent	obl
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 spent	nsubj
15	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
16	as	as	ADP	_	19 existence	case
17	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 existence	amod
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 existence	det
19	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spent	obl
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 expected	mark
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 expected	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 expected	aux:pass
23	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 spent	advcl
24	underground	underground	ADV	_	23 expected	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Agib			soon property	tree rules
2	love	to-infinitive	Agib not said here	me			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
3	spend	past	we		day	as a pleasant existence	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as existence=Attribute
4	expect	could · passive	we not said here			underground property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»

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 Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (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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