The Aesop for Children, The Oxen and the Wheels, sentence 6
And this, you may well know, made their work so much the harder to endure.
Who acts: you, this, work, Wheels · What happens: know, make, endure, work · To what, where: work
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 (you, this, work, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 made | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 this | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | aux |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 know | advmod |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 this | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 this | punct |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 work | nmod:poss |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 harder | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 harder | det |
| 15 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 made | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 endure | mark |
| 17 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 harder | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | may | you | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | make | past | this | Wheels's work | hard property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset work=Product | |||
| 3 | endure | to-infinitive | Wheels's work not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | work | Wheels = wheel | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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