The Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, sentence 15
_Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
Who acts: _ Poverty · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_ Poverty), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Poverty | compound |
| 2 | Poverty | Poverty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 better | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 security | case |
| 4 | security | security | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Poverty | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 better | cop |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 plenty | case |
| 8 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 better | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 midst | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 midst | det |
| 11 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plenty | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fear | case |
| 13 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 midst | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 uncertainty | cc |
| 15 | uncertainty | uncertainty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fear | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | _ Poverty with security | than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty; good 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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