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description: Then this wicked enchantress changed the capital, which was a very populous and flourishing city, into the lake and desert plain you saw. Who acts: wicked enchantress, capital, lake, you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 95

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Then this wicked enchantress changed the capital, which was a very populous and flourishing city, into the lake and desert plain you saw.

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**Who acts:** wicked enchantress, capital, lake, you · **What happens:** change, be, flourish, plain, see · **To what, where:** capital, populous, city

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked enchantress, capital, lake, you), 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:pg128:5:95
# text = Then this wicked enchantress changed the capital, which was a very populous and flourishing city, into the lake and desert plain you saw.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	populous	populace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	flourishing	flourish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	plain	plain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | this wicked enchantress | the capital |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the capital | a populous |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **flourish** | gerund | the capital *not said here* | city |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **plain** | present | the lake and desert |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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