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title: Those who had played with him in his childhood knew him not, he had… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Those who had played with him in his childhood knew him not, he had grown so handsome. Who acts: childhood, Aladdin. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 107

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Those who had played with him in his childhood knew him not, he had grown so handsome.

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**Who acts:** childhood, Aladdin · **What happens:** play, not know, grow · **To what, where:** Aladdin

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (childhood, Aladdin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:31:107
# text = Those who had played with him in his childhood knew him not, he had grown so handsome.
1	Those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	acl	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | with Aladdin | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **not** **know** | past | Aladdin's childhood | Aladdin |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **grow** | past · perfect | Aladdin |  |  |  |  | handsome *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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