The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid, sentence 7
A chilly little wind came creeping with them making scary noises in the grass.
Who acts: chilly little wind, shadows · What happens: come, creep, make · To what, where: scary noises, grass
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Kid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chilly little wind, shadows), 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 | 4 wind | det |
| 2 | chilly | chilly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wind | amod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wind | amod |
| 4 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 came | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 9 making | mark |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 making | nsubj |
| 9 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 creeping | advcl |
| 10 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 noises | amod |
| 11 | noises | noise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 making | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 grass | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 grass | det |
| 14 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 making | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a chilly little wind | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | creep | gerund | a chilly little wind not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | shadows = shadow | scary noises | the grass | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product |
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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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