--- title: Afraid the dream should prove true, he built for his son a pleasant… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg21:16:45 # text = 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. 1 Afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advcl _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 prove prove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 ccomp _ _ 6 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 pleasant pleasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 adorned adorn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 amusement amusement NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 29 sized size VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ _ 30 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 among among ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 obl _ _ 34 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/16/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/16/46/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/16/)