Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 46

When the young Prince saw this, his grief at being thus confined burst out afresh, and, standing near the lion, he said: “O you most detestable of animals! through a lying dream of my father’s, which he saw in his sleep, I am shut up on your account in this palace as if I had been a girl: what shall I now do to you?”

Who acts: young Prince, Prince, dream, your · What happens: see, burst out, stand, say, lie, shut up · To what, where: this, grief, lying dream, father, sleep, Prince · 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 (young Prince, Prince, dream, your), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Prince	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Prince	amod
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 said	advcl
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 saw	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 grief	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 grief	nmod:poss
9	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obl
10	at	at	SCONJ	_	14 burst	mark
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 burst	aux:pass
12	thus	thus	ADV	_	14 burst	advmod
13	confined	confine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 burst	aux:pass
14	burst	burst	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 grief	acl:relcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 burst	compound:prt
16	afresh	afresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 burst	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 standing	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 standing	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 standing	punct
20	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 saw	advcl
21	near	near	ADP	_	23 lion	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lion	det
23	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 standing	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 detestable	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 detestable	punct
29	O	o	INTJ	_	32 detestable	discourse
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 detestable	nsubj
31	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	32 detestable	advmod
32	detestable	detestable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 said	ccomp
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 animals	case
34	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 detestable	obl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 detestable	punct
36	through	through	ADP	_	39 dream	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 dream	det
38	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 dream	amod
39	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 father	case
41	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 father	nmod:poss
42	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 dream	nmod
43	’s	's	PART	_	42 father	case
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 saw	punct
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 saw	obj
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 saw	nsubj
47	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 father	acl:relcl
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 sleep	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 sleep	nmod:poss
50	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 saw	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 shut	punct
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 shut	nsubj
53	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 shut	aux:pass
54	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 saw	conj
55	up	up	ADP	_	54 shut	compound:prt
56	on	on	ADP	_	58 account	case
57	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 account	nmod:poss
58	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 shut	obl
59	in	in	ADP	_	61 palace	case
60	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	61 palace	det
61	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 shut	obl
62	as	as	SCONJ	_	68 girl	mark
63	if	if	SCONJ	_	68 girl	mark
64	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	68 girl	nsubj
65	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 girl	aux
66	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	68 girl	cop
67	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	68 girl	det
68	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 shut	advcl
69	:	:	PUNCT	_	70 what	punct
70	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	68 girl	appos
71	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	74 do	aux
72	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	74 do	nsubj
73	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	74 do	advmod
74	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	70 what	acl:relcl
75	to	to	ADP	_	76 you	case
76	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	74 do	obl
77	?	?	PUNCT	_	54 shut	punct
78	”	"	PUNCT	_	39 dream	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the young Prince	this				Prince's grief obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	burst out	gerund · passive		Prince's grief not said here				afresh, thus property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»
3	stand	gerund	the young Prince not said here					near the lion	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near lion=Location
4	say speech: ask	past	Prince			a lying dream of my father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	lie in a quote	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	see in a quote	past	dream	my father		dream's sleep			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
7	shut up in a quote	present · passive		Prince		your account		in this palace	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	is a in a quote	past · perfect	Prince	a girl					tree rules
9	do in a quote	shall	Prince		you		now		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	dream in a quote			my father					nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient
11	sleep in a quote		dream						nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent
12	account in a quote		your						nom account «communication 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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