The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 53

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

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.

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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 disappeared	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 disappeared	advmod
3	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	6 trapdoor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trapdoor	det
6	trapdoor	trapdoor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 disappeared	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 remaining	mark
10	remaining	remain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 came	advcl
11	below	below	ADV	_	10 remaining	advmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 minutes	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 minutes	det
14	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 minutes	amod
15	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 remaining	obl
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 disappeared	conj
17	up	up	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	again	again	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 boy	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 boy	cc
21	without	without	ADP	_	23 boy	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 boy	det
23	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 let	cc
26	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 disappeared	parataxis
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 let	compound:prt
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 trapdoor	det
29	trapdoor	trapdoor	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 let	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 covering	punct
31	covering	cover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 let	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 covering	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 earth	case
34	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 covering	obl
35	as	as	ADP	_	36 before	case
36	before	before	ADV	_	31 covering	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 disappeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

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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