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title: He changed clothes with the first person he met in the town, and hav… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree an
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 61

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg128:32:61
# text = 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.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	aux	_	_
16	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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