--- title: The wife accepted the baby with joy, and though the intendant saw qu… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: The wife accepted the baby with joy, and though the intendant saw quite well that it must have come from the royal palace, he did not think it was his business to inquire further into the mystery. Who acts: wife, intendant, baby. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Open --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/41/8/) [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 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/41/) / 8 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 8 The wife accepted the baby with joy, and though the intendant saw quite well that it must have come from the royal palace, he did not think it was his business to inquire further into the mystery. **Who acts:** wife, intendant, baby · **What happens:** accept, see, come, not think, be, inquire · **To what, where:** baby, royal palace, business, mystery · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, intendant, baby), 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:pg128:41:8 # text = The wife accepted the baby with joy, and though the intendant saw quite well that it must have come from the royal palace, he did not think it was his business to inquire further into the mystery. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 accepted accept VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 though though SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 intendant intendant NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 quite quite ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 aux _ _ 20 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 ccomp _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 ccomp _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 inquire inquire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl _ _ 36 further far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 35 advmod _ _ 37 into into ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 mystery mystery NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **accept** | past | the wife | the baby | | | | with joy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | the intendant | | | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **come** | must · perfect | intendant | | | the royal palace | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from palace=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | baby | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | past | intendant | baby's business | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **inquire** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | baby *not said here* | | | the mystery | | far *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/41/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/41/9/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/41/)