The Aesop for Children, The Oxen and the Wheels, sentence 2

They had to use all their strength to pull the wagon, but they did not complain.

Who acts: Oxen · What happens: have, use, pull, not complain · To what, where: strength, 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 (Oxen), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 use	mark
4	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 strength	det:predet
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 strength	nmod:poss
7	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 use	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 pull	mark
9	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 use	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wagon	det
11	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pull	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 complain	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 complain	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 complain	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 complain	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 complain	advmod
17	complain	complain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	Oxen = ox		tree rules
2	use	to-infinitive	Oxen = ox not said here	Oxen's strength	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient
3	pull	to-infinitive	Oxen = ox not said here	the wagon	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wagon=Theme
4	not complain speech: other	past · do-support	Oxen = ox		vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: 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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