The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 82

He changed clothes with her, coloured his face like hers, put on her veil and murdered her, that she might tell no tales.

Who acts: magician, Fatima · What happens: change, colour, put, murder, tell · To what, where: clothes, face, veil, Fatima, tales · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (magician, Fatima), 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	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 changed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 coloured	punct
7	coloured	colour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 changed	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 face	nmod:poss
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coloured	obj
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 hers	case
11	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 coloured	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
13	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 coloured	advcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 veil	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 veil	nmod:poss
16	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 murdered	cc
18	murdered	murder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 changed	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 murdered	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 tell	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tell	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 tell	aux
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 changed	conj
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 tales	det
26	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 tell	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	change	past	magician	clothes		with Fatima	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme with she=Co-Agent
2	colour	past	magician not said here	magician's face		like Fatima	tree rules
3	put	infinitive	magician not said here		Fatima's veil		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on veil=Destination
4	murder	past	magician not said here	Fatima			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	tell speech: assert	might	Fatima	no tales			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient

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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