The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 70

Thirty-nine days passed away more rapidly than I could have conceived possible, and the following morning the princesses were to return to the castle.

Who acts: I, princesses · What happens: pass away, conceive, follow, return

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, princesses), 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	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 nine	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Thirty	punct
3	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 days	nummod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 passed	obl:unmarked
5	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 passed	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 rapidly	advmod
8	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	13 conceived	advmod
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 conceived	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 conceived	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 conceived	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 conceived	aux
13	conceived	conceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 passed	advcl
14	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 conceived	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 return	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 return	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 morning	det
18	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 morning	amod
19	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 return	obl:unmarked
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 princesses	det
21	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 return	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 return	aux
23	to	to	PART	_	24 return	mark
24	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 passed	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 castle	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 castle	det
27	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 return	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	pass away	participle		day	away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	conceive	could · perfect	I		possible, rapidly property	vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	return	past	the princesses	morning	to the castle result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=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 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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