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title: The poor Oxen, pulling with all their might to draw the wagon throug… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Oxen and the Wheels, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Aesop for Children, The Oxen and the Wheels, sentence 5

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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.

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

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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 (poor Oxen), 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:pg19994:18:5
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Oxen	Oxen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	complaining	complaining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Wheels	Wheel	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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