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title: He changed clothes with her, coloured his face like hers, put on her… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 82

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

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

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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 (magician, Fatima), 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:pg128:32:82
# text = He changed clothes with her, coloured his face like hers, put on her veil and murdered her, that she might tell no tales.
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	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	coloured	colour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	murdered	murder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	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 | 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 |

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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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