The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 88

As he had a smooth tongue and good manners, he really did very well in his new profession, and he devoted himself specially to making friends with the servants in big houses, so as to gain access to their masters.

Who acts: Schacabac · What happens: have, do, devote, make, gain · To what, where: smooth tongue, Schacabac, friends, access

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schacabac), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 did	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tongue	det
5	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tongue	amod
6	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 manners	cc
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 manners	amod
9	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 tongue	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 did	nsubj
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 did	advmod
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 devoted	advcl
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 well	advmod
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 did	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 profession	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 profession	nmod:poss
18	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 profession	amod
19	profession	profession	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 did	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 devoted	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 devoted	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 devoted	nsubj
23	devoted	devote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 devoted	obj
25	specially	specially	ADV	_	23 devoted	advmod
26	to	to	SCONJ	_	27 making	mark
27	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 devoted	advcl
28	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 making	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 servants	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 servants	det
31	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 making	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 houses	case
33	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 houses	amod
34	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 servants	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 gain	punct
36	so	so	ADV	_	39 gain	advmod
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 gain	mark
38	to	to	ADP	_	37 as	fixed
39	gain	gain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 devoted	parataxis
40	access	access	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 gain	obj
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 masters	case
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 masters	nmod:poss
43	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 gain	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 devoted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Schacabac	a smooth tongue and good manners		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient
2	do	past	Schacabac		in Schacabac's new profession; well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	devote	past	Schacabac	Schacabac	specially property	vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
4	make	gerund	Schacabac not said here	friends	with the servants in big houses	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product
5	gain	infinitive		access	to servants's masters result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient access=Extent to master=Result

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 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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