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title: At length they rose from the water in their proper forms, but dartin… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: At length they rose from the water in their proper forms, but darting such flames of fire from their mouths that we dreaded lest the palace should catch fire. Who acts: wings, we, darting, fire. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with its dependency t
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 88

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At length they rose from the water in their proper forms, but darting such flames of fire from their mouths that we dreaded lest the palace should catch fire.

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**Who acts:** wings, we, darting, fire · **What happens:** rise, dart, dread, catch, form, flame · **To what, where:** length, such flames, mouths, fire

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wings, we, darting, fire), 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:pg128:10:88
# text = At length they rose from the water in their proper forms, but darting such flames of fire from their mouths that we dreaded lest the palace should catch fire.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
14	darting	dart	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	csubj	_	_
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	dreaded	dread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
30	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | wings *= wing* |  |  | length |  | from the water; in wings's proper forms | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at length=Location |
| 2 | **dart** | gerund |  | such flames of fire |  | wings's mouths |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent flame=Theme from mouth=Trajectory |
| 3 | **dread** | past | we | wings's mouths |  |  |  | lest the palace | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 4 | **catch** | should | darting | fire |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 5 | **form** |  | wings *= wing* |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **flame** |  | fire |  |  |  |  |  | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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