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title: When we hear the bell ringing we will know immediately that our enem… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: When we hear the bell ringing we will know immediately that our enemy is coming." Who acts: we, bell, enemy. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Belling the Cat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, Belling the Cat, sentence 8

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

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

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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.

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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:pg19994:8:8
# text = When we hear the bell ringing we will know immediately that our enemy is coming."
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	ringing	ring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
10	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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