The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 10

Then he desired the fisherman to change clothes with him, and in a few minutes the Caliph was transformed into a fisherman, even to the shoes and the turban.

Who acts: fisherman · What happens: desire, change, transform · To what, where: fisherman, clothes, Caliph

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 desired	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 desired	nsubj
3	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fisherman	det
5	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 desired	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 change	mark
7	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 desired	advcl
8	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	7 change	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 change	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 transformed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 transformed	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 minutes	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 minutes	det
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 minutes	amod
16	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 transformed	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Caliph	det
18	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 transformed	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 transformed	aux:pass
20	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 desired	conj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 fisherman	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fisherman	det
23	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 transformed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 shoes	punct
25	even	even	ADV	_	28 shoes	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 shoes	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 shoes	det
28	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 fisherman	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 turban	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 turban	det
31	turban	turban	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fisherman	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 desired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	desire	past	fisherman	the fisherman	then		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fisherman=Theme
2	change	to-infinitive	fisherman not said here	clothes		with fisherman	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme with he=Co-Agent
3	transform	past · passive		the Caliph	minute	into a fisherman and the shoes and the turban result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into fisherman=Result

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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