Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 44
When he had waited some days in vain, he saw the Innkeeper dressed in a new and handsome coat and sitting before his door.
Who acts: Fox, Innkeeper · What happens: wait, see, dress, sit · To what, where: vain, new coat, door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, Innkeeper), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 waited | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waited | aux |
| 4 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 saw | advcl |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 days | det |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 vain | case |
| 8 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 waited | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 waited | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Innkeeper | det |
| 13 | Innkeeper | Innkeeper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 dressed | nsubj |
| 14 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | ccomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 coat | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 coat | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 coat | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 handsome | cc |
| 19 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 new | conj |
| 20 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dressed | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sitting | cc |
| 22 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 coat | conj |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 door | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 door | nmod:poss |
| 25 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sitting | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · perfect | Fox | vain | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in vain=Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | Fox | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | dress | past | the Innkeeper | a new coat | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sit | gerund | the Innkeeper not said here | Fox's door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before door=Location |
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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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