The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Fox, sentence 16

_Common sense is always worth more than cunning.

What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 sense	punct
2	Common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sense	amod
3	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worth	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 worth	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 worth	advmod
6	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 worth	obj
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 cunning	case
9	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 more	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 worth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						Common sense obl; always, worth property	tree rules

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.

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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