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description: They all disappeared down the trapdoor, and after remaining below for a few minutes came up again, but without the boy, and let down the trapdoor, covering it with earth as before. Who acts: islands. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11, with its depende
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 53

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They all disappeared down the trapdoor, and after remaining below for a few minutes came up again, but without the boy, and let down the trapdoor, covering it with earth as before.

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**Who acts:** islands · **What happens:** disappear, remain, come up, let down, cover · **To what, where:** trapdoor

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (islands), 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:pg128:11:53
# text = They all disappeared down the trapdoor, and after remaining below for a few minutes came up again, but without the boy, and let down the trapdoor, covering it with earth as before.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	trapdoor	trapdoor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
11	below	below	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	without	without	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	down	down	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	trapdoor	trapdoor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	before	before	ADV	RB	_	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **disappear** | past | islands *= island* |  |  |  |  | down the trapdoor | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **remain** | gerund |  |  |  |  | minute | below *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come up** | past | islands *= island* *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **let down** | infinitive |  | the trapdoor |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trapdoor=Theme |
| 5 | **cover** | gerund |  | trapdoor |  |  |  | with earth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with earth=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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