--- title: Then the genius began to change himself into smoke, which, as before… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Then the genius began to change himself into smoke, which, as before, spread over the sea and the shore, and which, then collecting itself together, began to go back into the vase slowly and evenly till there was nothing left outside. Who acts: genius, nothing. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Ente --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/3/115/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/3/) / 115 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 115 Then the genius began to change himself into smoke, which, as before, spread over the sea and the shore, and which, then collecting itself together, began to go back into the vase slowly and evenly till there was nothing left outside. **Who acts:** genius, nothing · **What happens:** begin, change, spread, collect, go back, be · **To what, where:** genius, smoke, sea, shore, vase This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (genius, nothing), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg128:3:115 # text = Then the genius began to change himself into smoke, which, as before, spread over the sea and the shore, and which, then collecting itself together, began to go back into the vase slowly and evenly till there was nothing left outside. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 genius genius NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 6 obj _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 before before ADV RB _ 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl:relcl _ _ 17 over over ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 28 collecting collect VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 29 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 28 obj _ _ 30 together together ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 back back ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 into into ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 vase vase NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 evenly evenly ADV RB _ 39 conj _ _ 42 till till SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 43 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 44 expl _ _ 44 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 45 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 44 nsubj _ _ 46 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 acl _ _ 47 outside outside ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | the genius | | | | then | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **change** | to-infinitive | the genius *not said here* | genius | | | | into smoke *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into smoke=Result | | 3 | **spread** | participle | | smoke | | the sea and the shore | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme over sea=Destination | | 4 | **collect** | gerund | | shore | | | then | together *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme | | 5 | **begin** | past | the genius *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **go back** | to-infinitive | the genius *not said here* | | | the vase | | slowly *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **be** | past | nothing | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **leave** | participle | | | | | | outside *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/3/114/) - next →: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/3/116/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/3/)