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title: Soon there arose from the burning braziers a thick smoke which almos… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon there arose from the burning braziers a thick smoke which almost concealed both the horse and princess, and this was the moment for which he had been waiting. Who acts: thick smoke, this, horse. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40, with its depende
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 36

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Soon there arose from the burning braziers a thick smoke which almost concealed both the horse and princess, and this was the moment for which he had been waiting.

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**Who acts:** thick smoke, this, horse · **What happens:** arise, conceal, be, wait · **To what, where:** burning braziers, horse, moment

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thick smoke, this, horse), 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:pg128:40:36
# text = Soon there arose from the burning braziers a thick smoke which almost concealed both the horse and princess, and this was the moment for which he had been waiting.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	braziers	brazier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc:preconj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux	_	_
30	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past |  |  |  | the burning braziers; there |  | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **conceal** | past | a thick smoke | the horse and princess |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past | this | the moment |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wait** | past · perfect · progressive | horse |  |  |  | for the moment |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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