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title: Thirty-nine days passed away more rapidly than I could have conceive… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 70

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:12:70
# text = 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.
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
9	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	conceived	conceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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.

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**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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