The Aesop for Children, The Oxen and the Wheels, sentence 1
A pair of Oxen were drawing a heavily loaded wagon along a miry country road.
Who acts: pair · What happens: draw, load · To what, where: loaded wagon
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Oxen and the Wheels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pair), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pair | det |
| 2 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drawing | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Oxen | case |
| 4 | Oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pair | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drawing | aux |
| 6 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wagon | det |
| 8 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 9 loaded | advmod |
| 9 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 wagon | amod |
| 10 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drawing | obj |
| 11 | along | along | ADP | _ | 15 road | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 road | det |
| 13 | miry | miry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 road | amod |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 road | compound |
| 15 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drawing | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drawing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past · progressive | a pair of Oxen | a loaded wagon | along a miry country road | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wagon=Theme | |||
| 2 | load | participle | heavily property | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=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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