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description: 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. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 89

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg21:3:89
# text = 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.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	aside	aside	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	casting	cast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	haul	haul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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