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title: The Axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly; whereupon the Oxen, tur… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 55

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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?

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

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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.

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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:pg21:4:55
# text = 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?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Axle	Axle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	groaned	groan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	creaked	creak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Oxen	Oxen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	round	round	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Hullo	hullo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
24	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
26	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
27	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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:** «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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