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title: Meanwhile, Prince Firouz Schah had gone gaily up into the air, and f… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile, Prince Firouz Schah had gone gaily up into the air, and for the space of an hour continued to ascend higher and higher, till the very mountains were not distinguishable from the plains. Who acts: Firouz, mountains. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening,
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 85

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Meanwhile, Prince Firouz Schah had gone gaily up into the air, and for the space of an hour continued to ascend higher and higher, till the very mountains were not distinguishable from the plains.

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**Who acts:** Firouz, mountains · **What happens:** go, continue, ascend, not be · **To what, where:** air, higher, plains

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Firouz, mountains), 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:pg128:37:85
# text = Meanwhile, Prince Firouz Schah had gone gaily up into the air, and for the space of an hour continued to ascend higher and higher, till the very mountains were not distinguishable from the plains.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Firouz	Firouz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	Schah	Schah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	gaily	gaily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	up	up	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	ascend	ascend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	very	very	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	distinguishable	distinguishable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | Firouz  Prince |  |  | the air |  | meanwhile *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **continue** | participle | Firouz  Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the space of a hour | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **ascend** | to-infinitive | Firouz  Prince *not said here* | higher |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme high=Trajectory |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | the mountains |  |  | the plains |  | distinguishable *property* | tree rules |

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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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