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title: A pair of Oxen were drawing a heavily loaded wagon along a miry coun… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A pair of Oxen were drawing a heavily loaded wagon along a miry country road. Who acts: pair. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Oxen and the Wheels, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Oxen and the Wheels, sentence 1

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A pair of Oxen were drawing a heavily loaded wagon along a miry country road.

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**Who acts:** pair · **What happens:** draw, load · **To what, where:** loaded wagon

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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 (pair), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:18:1
# text = A pair of Oxen were drawing a heavily loaded wagon along a miry country road.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	loaded	load	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	along	along	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	miry	miry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past · progressive | a pair of Oxen | a loaded wagon |  |  |  | along a miry country road | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wagon=Theme |
| 2 | **load** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | heavily *property* | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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