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title: A KING, whose only son was fond of martial exercises, had a dream in… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 44

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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.

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**Who acts:** son, KING, lion · **What happens:** be, have, warn, kill · **To what, where:** dream, King, son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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.

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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:pg21:16:44
# text = 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.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	KING	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	martial	martial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	exercises	exercise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	warned	warn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	ccomp	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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