--- title: Opening, part 7 — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · full text with trees · page 2 description: Opening, part 7, «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Amina struck a few chords and then broke into a song, which she sang with so much ardour that she was quite overcome, and sank gasping on a pile --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/page/2/) [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 7 # Opening, part 7 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/101/) — After all I had gone through, and my fear of being recognised by some enemy, I could only travel very slowly and cautiously, generally resting in some out-of-the-way place by day, and walking as far as I was able by night, but at length I arrived in the kingdom of my uncle, of whose protection I was sure. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/102/) — I found him in great trouble about the disappearance of his son, who had, he said, vanished without leaving a trace; but his own grief did not prevent him sharing mine. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/103/) — We mingled our tears, for the loss of one was the loss of the other, and then I made up my mind that it was my duty to break the solemn oath I had sworn to the prince. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/104/) — I therefore lost no time in telling my uncle everything I knew, and I observed that even before I had ended his sorrow appeared to be lightened a little. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/105/) — "My dear nephew," he said, "your story gives me some hope. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/106/) — I was aware that my son was building a tomb, and I think I can find the spot. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/107/) — But as he wished to keep the matter secret, let us go alone and seek the place ourselves." - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/108/) — He then bade me disguise myself, and we both slipped out of a garden door which opened on to the cemetery. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/109/) — It did not take long for us to arrive at the scene of the prince's disappearance, or to discover the tomb I had sought so vainly before. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/110/) — We entered it, and found the trap-door which led to the staircase, but we had great difficulty in raising it, because the prince had fastened it down underneath with the plaster he had brought with him. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/111/) — My uncle went first, and I followed him. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/112/) — When we reached the bottom of the stairs we stepped into a sort of ante-room, filled with such a dense smoke that it was hardly possible to see anything. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/113/) — However, we passed through the smoke into a large chamber, which at first seemed quite empty. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/114/) — The room was brilliantly lighted, and in another moment we perceived a sort of platform at one end, on which were the bodies of the prince and a lady, both half-burned, as if they had been dragged out of a fire before it had quite consumed them. [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/) **2** - ← previous: [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/6/) - next →: [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/8/) - ↑ back to [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/)