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title: They passed in front of the town, and went up a mountain and then do… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: They passed in front of the town, and went up a mountain and then down into a great plain, where there was a large lake lying between four hills. Who acts: misgivings, large lake. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 125

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They passed in front of the town, and went up a mountain and then down into a great plain, where there was a large lake lying between four hills.

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**Who acts:** misgivings, large lake · **What happens:** pass, go up, be, lie · **To what, where:** front, mountain, large lake, great plain, four hills

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (misgivings, large lake), 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:pg128:4:125
# text = They passed in front of the town, and went up a mountain and then down into a great plain, where there was a large lake lying between four hills.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
28	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	between	between	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | misgivings *= misgiving* |  |  | front of the town |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in front=Location |
| 2 | **go up** | past |  | a mountain |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient mountain=Extent |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | a large lake |  | a great plain |  | down *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lie** | gerund | a large lake *not said here* |  |  | four hills |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between hill=Location |

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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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