Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 89

At last, having long waited in vain, he laid aside his flute, and casting his net into the sea, made an excellent haul of fish.

Who acts: having, FISHERMAN · What happens: have, wait, lay, cast, make, haul · To what, where: last, net, sea, excellent haul, fish

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (having, FISHERMAN), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 waited	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 waited	csubj
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 having	advmod
6	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 vain	case
8	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 waited	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 laid	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 laid	nsubj
11	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 waited	conj
12	aside	aside	ADP	_	14 flute	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 flute	nmod:poss
14	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laid	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
17	casting	cast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 made	advcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 net	nmod:poss
19	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 casting	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 sea	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sea	det
22	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 casting	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 casting	punct
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 waited	conj
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 haul	det
26	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 haul	amod
27	haul	haul	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 fish	case
29	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 haul	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	gerund				long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	wait	past	having		last	in vain	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
3	lay	past	FISHERMAN			aside FISHERMAN's flute	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	cast	gerund		FISHERMAN's net	the sea		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent net=Material into sea=Product
5	make	past	having not said here	a excellent haul of fish			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haul=Product
6	haul			fish			nom haul «act transitive»: of=patient

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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