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title: A THIEF hired a room in a tavern and stayed a while in the hope of s… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A THIEF hired a room in a tavern and stayed a while in the hope of stealing something which should enable him to pay his reckoning. Who acts: THIEF, hope, Fox. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 43

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A THIEF hired a room in a tavern and stayed a while in the hope of stealing something which should enable him to pay his reckoning.

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**Who acts:** THIEF, hope, Fox · **What happens:** hire, stay, steal, enable, pay, reckon · **To what, where:** room, tavern, hope, something, Fox, reckoning

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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 (THIEF, hope, Fox), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg21:11:43
# text = A THIEF hired a room in a tavern and stayed a while in the hope of stealing something which should enable him to pay his reckoning.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	THIEF	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hired	hire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tavern	tavern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	acl	_	_
18	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	obj	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	enable	enable	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	reckoning	reckoning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hire** | past | a THIEF | a room |  | a tavern |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** | past | a THIEF *not said here* |  |  | the hope | while |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hope=Location |
| 3 | **steal** | gerund | the hope *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location something=Theme |
| 4 | **enable** | should |  | Fox |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pay** | to-infinitive | Fox *not said here* | Fox's reckoning |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reckoning=Asset |
| 6 | **reckon** |  | Fox |  |  |  |  |  | nom reckoning «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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