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title: And this, you may well know, made their work so much the harder to e… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: And this, you may well know, made their work so much the harder to endure. Who acts: you, this, work, Wheels. 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 6

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And this, you may well know, made their work so much the harder to endure.

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**Who acts:** you, this, work, Wheels · **What happens:** know, make, endure, work · **To what, where:** work

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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 (you, this, work, Wheels), 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:pg19994:18:6
# text = And this, you may well know, made their work so much the harder to endure.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	much	much	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	endure	endure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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