The Aesop for Children, The Oxen and the Wheels, sentence 5

The poor Oxen, pulling with all their might to draw the wagon through the deep mud, had their ears filled with the loud complaining of the Wheels.

Who acts: poor Oxen · What happens: pull, draw, have, fill · To what, where: wagon, deep mud, ears

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 (poor 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Oxen	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Oxen	amod
3	Oxen	Oxen	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pulling	punct
5	pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 Oxen	acl
6	with	with	SCONJ	_	11 draw	mark
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 draw	det:predet
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 draw	nmod:poss
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 draw	aux
10	to	to	PART	_	11 draw	mark
11	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pulling	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wagon	det
13	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 draw	obj
14	through	through	ADP	_	17 mud	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mud	det
16	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mud	amod
17	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 draw	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Oxen	punct
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 ears	nmod:poss
21	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 had	obj
22	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 ears	acl
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 complaining	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 complaining	det
25	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 complaining	amod
26	complaining	complaining	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 filled	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 Wheels	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Wheels	det
29	Wheels	Wheel	PROPN	Number=Plur	26 complaining	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pull	gerund	the poor Oxen not said here				vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	draw	might	the poor Oxen not said here	the wagon	the deep mud		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wagon=Theme
3	have	past	the poor Oxen	Wheels's ears			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
4	fill	participle		Wheels's ears not said here		with the loud complaining of the Wheels	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with complaining=Instrument

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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