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title: When he had waited some days in vain, he saw the Innkeeper dressed i… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 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 44

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When he had waited some days in vain, he saw the Innkeeper dressed in a new and handsome coat and sitting before his door.

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**Who acts:** Fox, Innkeeper · **What happens:** wait, see, dress, sit · **To what, where:** vain, new coat, door · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Fox, Innkeeper), 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:pg21:11:44
# text = When he had waited some days in vain, he saw the Innkeeper dressed in a new and handsome coat and sitting before his door.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	waited	wait	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Innkeeper	Innkeeper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
23	before	before	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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