The Aesop for Children, Belling the Cat, sentence 8

When we hear the bell ringing we will know immediately that our enemy is coming."

Who acts: we, bell, enemy · What happens: hear, ring, know, come · To what, where: bell

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Belling the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, bell, enemy), 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	SCONJ	_	3 hear	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bell	det
5	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obj
6	ringing	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 hear	xcomp
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 know	aux
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ringing	ccomp
10	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	9 know	advmod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 coming	mark
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 enemy	nmod:poss
13	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 coming	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 coming	aux
15	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 know	advcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	present	we	the bell		tree rules
2	ring	gerund	the bell not said here			tree rules
3	know	future	we		immediately property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	come	present · progressive	our enemy			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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