Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 44
A KING, whose only son was fond of martial exercises, had a dream in which he was warned that his son would be killed by a lion.
Who acts: son, KING, lion · What happens: be, have, warn, kill · To what, where: dream, King, son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, KING, lion), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 KING | det |
| 2 | KING | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fond | punct |
| 4 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 son | advmod |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fond | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fond | cop |
| 8 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 KING | acl:relcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 exercises | case |
| 10 | martial | martial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 exercises | amod |
| 11 | exercises | exercise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fond | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 KING | punct |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 dream | det |
| 15 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 warned | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 warned | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 warned | aux:pass |
| 20 | warned | warn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 dream | acl:relcl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 killed | mark |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 killed | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 killed | aux:pass |
| 26 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 warned | ccomp |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 lion | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 lion | det |
| 29 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 killed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | son | of martial exercises; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | a KING | a dream | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient | ||||
| 3 | warn speech: warn | past · passive | King | a dream | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | kill | would · passive | a lion | King's son | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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