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title: They did not even hear the noise of stones whizzing through the air,… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Cranes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Cranes, sentence 12

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They did not even hear the noise of stones whizzing through the air, and as for words, they would kill nobody.

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**Who acts:** Cranes, stones · **What happens:** not hear, whiz, kill, noise · **To what, where:** noise, air, nobody

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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.

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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:pg19994:79:12
# text = They did not even hear the noise of stones whizzing through the air, and as for words, they would kill nobody.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	whizzing	whiz	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
23	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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