The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Cranes, sentence 12
They did not even hear the noise of stones whizzing through the air, and as for words, they would kill nobody.
Who acts: Cranes, stones · What happens: not hear, whiz, kill, noise · To what, where: noise, air, nobody
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Cranes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cranes, stones), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hear | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hear | advmod |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 hear | advmod |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 noise | det |
| 7 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hear | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 stones | case |
| 9 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 noise | nmod |
| 10 | whizzing | whiz | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 stones | acl |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 air | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 air | det |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 whizzing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kill | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 kill | cc |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 18 words | case |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 as | fixed |
| 18 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 kill | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 words | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 kill | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 kill | aux |
| 22 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hear | conj |
| 23 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 kill | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | past · do-support | Cranes = crane | the noise of stones | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | whiz | gerund | stones not said here | the air | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | kill | would | Cranes = crane | nobody | as words | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent nobody=Duration as word=Attribute | |||
| 4 | noise | stones | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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: «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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