The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 240

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

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

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, woman), 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 colored	punct
7	colored	color	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 colored	obj
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 hers	case
11	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 colored	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
13	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 colored	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	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 murdered	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 murdered	cc
19	murdered	murder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 changed	parataxis
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 murdered	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 tell	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tell	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 tell	aux
25	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 murdered	conj
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 tales	det
27	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 tell	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	change	past	magician	clothes		with woman	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme with she=Co-Agent
2	color	past	magician not said here	magician's face		like woman	vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
3	put	infinitive	magician not said here		woman's veil		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on veil=Destination
4	murder	past		woman			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	tell speech: assert	might	woman	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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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