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title: As he was finishing it the guinea pigs lit some Arabian incense, whi… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As he was finishing it the guinea pigs lit some Arabian incense, which gradually filled the room with clouds of blue vapour. Who acts: smell, guinea pigs, Arabian incense. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 74

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As he was finishing it the guinea pigs lit some Arabian incense, which gradually filled the room with clouds of blue vapour.

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**Who acts:** smell, guinea pigs, Arabian incense · **What happens:** finish, lit, fill, cloud · **To what, where:** soup, Arabian incense, room, blue vapour

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smell, guinea pigs, Arabian incense), 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:pg641:26:74
# text = As he was finishing it the guinea pigs lit some Arabian incense, which gradually filled the room with clouds of blue vapour.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	finishing	finish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lit	lit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	vapour	vapour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · progressive | smell | soup |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality |
| 2 | **lit** | present | the guinea pigs | some Arabian incense |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fill** | past | some Arabian incense | the room |  |  |  | with clouds of blue vapour; gradually *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent room=Patient with cloud=Instrument |
| 4 | **cloud** |  |  | blue vapour |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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