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title: What have you Wheels to complain about so loudly? — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: What have you Wheels to complain about so loudly? Who acts: you. 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 8

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What have you Wheels to complain about so loudly?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** have, wheel, complain

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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), 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:pg19994:18:8
# text = What have you Wheels to complain about so loudly?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	obj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	Wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	complain	complain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 2 | **wheel** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **complain** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | about, loudly *property* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: 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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