The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 61

He changed clothes with the first person he met in the town, and having bought a certain powder returned to the princess, who let him in by a little side door.

Who acts: Aladdin, princess · What happens: change, meet, buy, return, let in · To what, where: clothes, first person, town, certain powder, Aladdin

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aladdin, princess), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 changed	nsubj
2	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 changed	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 person	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 person	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 person	amod
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changed	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 met	nsubj
9	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 person	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 town	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 town	det
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 met	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bought	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bought	cc
15	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 bought	aux
16	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 changed	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 powder	det
18	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 powder	amod
19	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bought	obj
20	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 powder	acl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 princess	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 princess	det
23	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 returned	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 let	nsubj
26	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 princess	acl:relcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 let	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	26 let	compound:prt
29	by	by	ADP	_	33 door	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 door	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 door	amod
32	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 door	compound
33	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 let	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	change	past	Aladdin	clothes		with the first person	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme with person=Co-Agent
2	meet	past	Aladdin	the first person not said here	the town		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Co-Agent
3	buy	gerund · perfect	Aladdin not said here	a certain powder			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent powder=Theme
4	return	participle		a certain powder not said here		to the princess result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to princess=Result
5	let in	past	the princess	Aladdin		by a little side door	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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