--- title: As he had a smooth tongue and good manners, he really did very well… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/21/88/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/21/) / 88 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg128:21:88 # text = 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. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 manners manners NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 really really ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 14 very very ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 profession profession NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 devoted devote VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 24 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 23 obj _ _ 25 specially specially ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 to to SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 28 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 so so ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 37 as as SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 37 fixed _ _ 39 gain gain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 40 access access NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 masters master NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/21/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/21/89/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/21/)