The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 36

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 · What happens: arise, conceal, be, wait · To what, where: burning braziers, horse, moment

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 arose	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 arose	expl
3	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 braziers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 braziers	det
6	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 braziers	compound
7	braziers	brazier	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 arose	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 smoke	det
9	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 smoke	amod
10	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 braziers	appos
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 concealed	nsubj
12	almost	almost	ADV	_	13 concealed	advmod
13	concealed	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 smoke	acl:relcl
14	both	both	CCONJ	_	16 horse	cc:preconj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 horse	det
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 concealed	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 princess	cc
18	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 horse	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 moment	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 moment	cc
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 moment	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 moment	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 moment	det
24	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arose	obl
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 waiting	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 waiting	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 waiting	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 waiting	aux
30	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 moment	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 arose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, 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

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.

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