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title: A chilly little wind came creeping with them making scary noises in… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A chilly little wind came creeping with them making scary noises in the grass. Who acts: chilly little wind, shadows. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Kid, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid, sentence 7

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A chilly little wind came creeping with them making scary noises in the grass.

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**Who acts:** chilly little wind, shadows · **What happens:** come, creep, make · **To what, where:** scary noises, grass

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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.

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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:pg19994:3:7
# text = A chilly little wind came creeping with them making scary noises in the grass.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	chilly	chilly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	noises	noise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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