The Aesop for Children, The Oxen and the Wheels, sentence 4

Though the task they had to do was very light compared with that of the Oxen, they creaked and groaned at every turn.

Who acts: Wheels, task · What happens: have, do, be, compare, creak, groan · To what, where: task

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, task), 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	Though	though	ADP	_	3 task	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 task	det
3	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 light	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 task	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	xcomp
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 light	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 light	advmod
10	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 light	advcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 that	case
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 compared	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Oxen	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Oxen	det
16	Oxen	Oxen	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 that	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 creaked	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 creaked	nsubj
19	creaked	creak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 light	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 groaned	cc
21	groaned	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 creaked	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 turn	case
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 turn	det
24	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 groaned	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 light	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Wheels = wheel	the task not said here		tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the task not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past			though the task; light property	tree rules
4	compare	participle			with that	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with that=Co-Patient
5	creak	past	Wheels = wheel			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	groan	past	Wheels = wheel not said here		at every turn	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at turn=Stimulus

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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