The Aesop for Children, The Gnat and the Bull, sentence 9
_The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Gnat and the Bull. 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 smaller | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 smaller | det |
| 3 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mind | det |
| 5 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smaller | nsubj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 greater | det |
| 7 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 mind | amod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 conceit | det |
| 9 | conceit | conceit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 greater | nsubj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smaller | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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