Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 45
Afraid the dream should prove true, he built for his son a pleasant palace and adorned its walls for his amusement with all kinds of life-sized animals, among which was the picture of a lion.
Who acts: dream, picture · What happens: prove, build, adorn, size, be, amuse · To what, where: pleasant palace, walls
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 (dream, picture), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg21:1312): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 built | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dream | det |
| 3 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prove | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 prove | aux |
| 5 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Afraid | ccomp |
| 6 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prove | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 built | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 built | nsubj |
| 9 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 son | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 built | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 14 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 palace | amod |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 built | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 adorned | cc |
| 17 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 built | conj |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 walls | nmod:poss |
| 19 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 adorned | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 amusement | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 amusement | nmod:poss |
| 22 | amusement | amusement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 adorned | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 kinds | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 kinds | det |
| 25 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 adorned | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 animals | case |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sized | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 life | punct |
| 29 | sized | size | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 animals | amod |
| 30 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 kinds | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 was | punct |
| 32 | among | among | ADP | _ | 33 which | case |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 was | obl |
| 34 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 animals | acl:relcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 picture | det |
| 36 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 was | nsubj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 lion | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 lion | det |
| 39 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 picture | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | should | the dream | true property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | build | past | dream | a pleasant palace | for dream's son | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent palace=Product for son=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | adorn | past | dream not said here | palace's walls | for dream's amusement; with all kinds of sized animals | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent wall=Destination with kind=Theme | |||
| 4 | size | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | be | past | the picture of a lion | among sized animals | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among which=Location | ||||
| 6 | amuse | dream | nom amusement «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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