The Aesop for Children, The Oxen and the Wheels, sentence 3

The Wheels of the wagon were of a different sort.

Who acts: Wheels · What happens: be

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 (Wheels), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Wheels	det
2	Wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sort	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 wagon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wagon	det
5	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Wheels	nmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sort	cop
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 sort	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sort	det
9	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sort	amod
10	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sort	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Wheels of the wagon					of a different sort	tree rules

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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