Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 55

The Axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly; whereupon the Oxen, turning round, thus addressed the wheels: “Hullo there! why do you make so much noise?

Who acts: Axle trees, Oxen, you · What happens: groan, creak, turn round, address, hullo, make · To what, where: wheels, much noise

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Axle trees, Oxen, you), 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	4 trees	det
2	Axle	Axle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 trees	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Axle	punct
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 groaned	nsubj
5	groaned	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 creaked	cc
7	creaked	creak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 groaned	conj
8	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	7 creaked	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 turning	punct
10	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	14 turning	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Oxen	det
12	Oxen	Oxen	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 turning	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turning	punct
14	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 groaned	advcl
15	round	round	ADV	_	14 turning	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 addressed	punct
17	thus	thus	ADV	_	18 addressed	advmod
18	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 groaned	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wheels	det
20	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 addressed	obj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 Hullo	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 Hullo	punct
23	Hullo	hullo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 addressed	conj
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 Hullo	advmod
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 Hullo	punct
26	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	29 make	advmod
27	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 make	aux
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 make	nsubj
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 Hullo	advcl
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 noise	amod
32	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obj
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 groaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	groan	past	the Axle trees				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	creak	past	the Axle trees not said here			terribly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	turn round	gerund	the Oxen			round, whereupon property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	address	past		the wheels		thus property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Destination
5	hullo in a quote	infinitive			there		tree rules
6	make in a quote	present · do-support	you	much noise			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product

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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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