--- title: The baker, who had of course been only in joke, was exceedingly surp… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: The baker, who had of course been only in joke, was exceedingly surprised at my cleverness, and the woman, who was at last convinced that the man spoke the truth, produced another piece of money in its place. Who acts: baker, woman, man. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew La --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/42/) [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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/) / 42 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 42 The baker, who had of course been only in joke, was exceedingly surprised at my cleverness, and the woman, who was at last convinced that the man spoke the truth, produced another piece of money in its place. **Who acts:** baker, woman, man · **What happens:** have, be, convince, speak, produce · **To what, where:** cleverness, truth, piece, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baker, woman, man), 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:pg128:35:42 # text = The baker, who had of course been only in joke, was exceedingly surprised at my cleverness, and the woman, who was at last convinced that the man spoke the truth, produced another piece of money in its place. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 baker baker NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 7 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 fixed _ _ 8 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 cop _ _ 9 only only ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 exceedingly exceedingly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 surprised surprised ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 cleverness cleverness NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 28 convinced convince VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 produced produce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 37 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 38 det _ _ 38 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the baker | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | participle | | | | | | of joke | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | the baker | | | my cleverness | | exceedingly, surprised *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | past | the woman | | | | | last *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **convince** | past | the woman | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the man | the truth | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **produce** | past | the woman *not said here* | another piece of money | | baker's place | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=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 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/43/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/)